Ecology

Question 1

chicago school goal and conclusion

Answer 1

aimed to understand the natural laws of social existence
concluded that social space/ecology is RESPONSIBLE for crime and deviance

Question 2

nativism

Answer 2

a collective effort involving force and hostility to preserve culture

Question 3

W. Thomas and the Polish Peasant

Answer 3

examined the disruptive forces attached to immigration
1. people had trouble assimilating into NEW WORLD values.
2. social controls are difficult to exert
3. absence of normative order created an “anything goes” mentality

Question 4

Sellin and the Montagnais Indians

Answer 4

problems due to implementing French laws into Colonies (i.e. Algeria)
conclusion: culture differences = natural outgrowth of processes

Question 5

Burgess and Park’s concentric zone model

Answer 5

1. central business district (core)
2. transition zone (factories/abandoned buildings) - MOST CRIME
3. working class zone (single family tenements)
4. residential zone (single family homes)
5. communter zone (suburbia)

Question 6

Shaw and McKay conclusions on the concentric zone model

Answer 6

1. social issues = spatially produced
2. transition zone = highest social problems
3. transition zone highest regardless of ethnic groups
4. all types of social issues exist in the transition zone

Question 7

Stark’s conclusions on crime ecology

Answer 7

the higher the density, the higher the crime/moral cynicism/transience rates

lenient law enforcement is damaging to vulnerable neighbourhoods

Question 8

cities allow for …

Answer 8

high specialization
high coordination
economics of scale

Question 9

criticisms - Whyte, isomorphism, corporate crime?

Answer 9

Whyte: social disorganization theory signifies that the observer has not understood what was seen (misinterpreted)

isomorphism: cause and effect?

corporate crime is IGNORED