CJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Nature, Curbed, Sigmund Freud

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 100
• Professor: Douglas Klutz

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Social changes were implicated in the rise in crime. ***forces outside individual control resulted in criminal behavior (environmental factors) Understanding crime was not an individual basis, but studying the collective group (sociological approach) Researchers focused on traits of neighborhoods in chicago. Ernest burgess, (cid:498)concentric zone model(cid:499) (cid:523)heat mapping the crime rates(cid:524) *** zone 2: zone of transition (located right outside the business district: a lot of people moved in and out, crime remains high, but stable. Crime was higher in the (cid:498)zone in transition(cid:499) Rates of crime by area remained relatively stable. Meaning that characteristics of the areas (neighborhoods), not individuals, regulated crime. Findings led to the differential association theory. Differential association theory: edwin sutherland (1947) Criminal behavior is learned through interactions with others engaging in (cid:498)an excess of definitions favorable to the violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of law(cid:499) Wrote the book (cid:498)the anatomy of violence(cid:499) (cid:498)neurocriminology(cid:499)