Chapter 3: Rejecting individualism: The chicago school

Question 1

The transition from the criminal man to the environment. What causes crime in the city.

Answer 1

Chicago school.

Question 2

Wanted to save the poor. Because environment caused crime. Had ideas about how to change policies to fix the environment.

Answer 2

Progressive movement.

Question 3

Chicago school. The city’s development and organization was not random. It was patterned. Believed in the concentric zone theory.

Answer 3

Park

Question 4

​Focused​ ​on​ ​juveniles/delinquent boys. ​Social​ ​disorganization.​ ​

Answer 4

Shaw & McKay

Question 5

​Created​ ​the​ ​concentric​ ​zone​ ​theory.​ ​Zone​ ​of​ ​transition​ ​had​ ​the​ ​most​ ​crime.

Answer 5

Burgess.

Question 6

​Differential​ ​Association.​ ​Criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.

Answer 6

Sutherland.

Question 7

Code of street. Conventional. Chicago school.

Answer 7

Elijah Anderson.

Question 8

Social learning theory. Crime is a learned behavior through the social interactions with others.

Answer 8

Ronald Akers.

Question 9

Sampson believed in…

Answer 9

Collective Efficacy. Thought to explain how informal social control at the community level explains variation in crime rates across neighborhoods.

Question 10

Policy implication for neighborhood communities in disorganized slum areas.

Answer 10

Chicago area project (CAP)