SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vishnu Vishal, Fédération Internationale D'Escrime, Social Disorganization Theory
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Victimology: victimology is the study of victimization. It includes not only the interaction between the victim and the offender but also the victim and the criminal justice system (police, courts). It includes the interaction between the victim and other institutions, such as the media: also the role victims play, if any, in a criminal act, the victims of crime are not random. Makes it difficult for police to determine if they left or are missing. A lot of them have tenuous relationships with family. Long time can go by before someone notices. They assume that motivated offenders exists: routine activities, social disorganization, collective efficacy. Social disorganization (shaw and mckay (1942): in 1929 shaw and mckay began a number of ecological studies of delinquency in. They were looking if and how crime/delinquency vary within a city: why and how does crime rate vary in different locations? o. If we have high residential mobility, crime rates should change!
