CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elijah Anderson, Property Crime, Date Rape

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Christina Hollingshead

Document Summary

Sociology examines crime as an interaction with social forces. The effects of changing cultural norms, social institutions, and technology. The effect of socialization in family and with peers. Social stratification unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Social class people who have similar wealth, values, attitudes, and lifestyles (aka: upper, middle, and lower class) Reduced poverty among the elderly: access to healthcare, pensions, social security. Effects: baron: occupation strain solved by crime, bolland: hopelessness incr violence, substance use, sexual behaviour and accidental injury. Lower class: problems w/ housing, lack of healthcare, family breakups, underemployment, high levels of dropping out, teen pregnancy. Characteristics of disorganization: transient pop (high turnover, mixed-use neighbourhood (i. e. residential and commercial side-by-side, lack essential services, high unemployment, single-parent families, dependence on social assistance, substandard housing. Crime rates reflect the following: community deterioration. Disorder, poverty, alienation, fear of crime: broken window theory.