SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 2: Crime In The United States, Property Crime, Larceny

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

The great american crime decline: the great american crime decline,1 taking place from the early 1990s to the present day, united states had such high levels of violence by the early 1990s two theories. More liberal one: one takes the position that the increase in crime was related to very real sociological root causes poverty, to name one. More conservative one:the other takes the position that the increase in crime was related not to economic poverty but to moral poverty children not learning right from wrong and associated ills such as drug abuse.