ENG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sociological Perspectives, Social Disorganization Theory, Canadian Prairies

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 200
• Professor: Colleen Derkatch

Document Summary

Structural theories: structural theories of crime attempt to explain rates and patterns of crime for groups or classes of people, and not individuals. Social disorganization : crime as community breakdown: whether we are buying a home, or just looking at the housing market we know that every city is informally divided by. Example: low crime neigbourhoods are portrayed as stable, organized and orderly, under conditions of rapid population growth and social change, neigbourhoods become disrupted or socially disorganized- loosing their ability to constrain criminal / deviant behaviours. The chicago school: the environmental or social disorganization approach to explain crime was developed by faculty at north america"s first. Chicago: he tried to explain how human beings could be physically mapped into zones. West lower incarceration higher incarceration inner cores of the smaller western cities had higher concentration of native people and were more geographically restricted than in the larger eastern cities.