Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Attachment Theory, Social Inequality, Routine Activity Theory
15 Apr 2016
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Opportunity theory: these 6 theories understand the characteristics of criminality today. Biological: shape of head, body types, freud, piaget. Impact on social policy, delinquency-prevention projects, and how young offenders are processed through the justice system. Links crime and delinquency to regions of an urban area. Human ecology: examines the relationship between people and their physical environment. Therefore, must be something within the neighbourhoods causing youth crime. Crime is a function of neighbourhood dynamics not individual dynamics. Residential zone in transition: highest level of crime: lot of transitional housing/deteriorated housing, factories, abandoned buildings, diseases, low income. Social variables exist in zone that creates crime. Lacking in conventional institutions of social control: not only just disorganized but also lacked institution of social control, ex. Schools, neighbourhood watch, community centres, churches and groups, etc. Anomie: coined by durkheim, referring to a state of normlessness, or one with no rules.
