CRM/LAW C108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Disorganization Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Mathematical Model
12 Oct 2016
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Biology and biosocial: some biological aspect of the person that interacts with their environment. Psychological and personality: there are certain people who have high levels of negative emotionality, low levels of constraint. Macro theory of crime = why certain neighborhoods or areas are more likely to have crime (aggregates of individuals) Backgrounds in human ecology (idea of how plants and animals go in and invade and take over spaces) Park and burgess: the growth of the city, 1925. Transitional zone: recent immigrant groups, deteriorated housing, factories, abandoned buildings, most turnover (people are really trying to get out/move out) Dynamic model^ always moving depending on what the needs are of the city and how many people are moving in/out. Crime is most severe in zones of high rates of transition. Counted number of youth who went to court at least once. People who committed crimes could have committed the crimes elsewhere. Only looked at males and not females.
