SOC224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Concentric Zone Model, Differential Association, Jeremy Bentham
13 Jul 2018
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Chapter 3 - positivistic theories of deviant behaviour. Keywords anomie - the term used by emile durkheim to refer to social conditions in which social norms and values are weak or absent. Durkheim believed this state of normlessness led to increased rates of suicide and other forms of deviant behaviour anomie theory - robert merton"s adaptation of the concept of anomie in his social structural theory of deviant behaviour. Chicago school (of sociology) - the sociological approach developed at the university of. Chicago through the 1920s and 1930s focusing on urban sociology and ethnographic eldwork classical criminology - an in uential theory of criminal justice developed by cesare beccaria and. Marcus felson that focuses on environmental aspects of criminal activity. Xyy syndrome - a genetic syndrome proposed in the 1960s in which males who are born with an extra y chromosome are believed to be highly aggressive and prone to criminal behaviour.
