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Theories of Crime - Week 5 Flashcards

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Ecological Perspective

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  • Sociological theory of crime
  • Biological & psychological theories look for explanations that are within individuals - pathologies - sociological see the cause of crime in factors that are external to individuals in society
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Sociological Theorist View

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  • Sociological theories see criminal and delinquents as

normal people whose behaviour is influenced in some way by the social environment in which they live

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What is important concept to Chicago school theorists?

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Environment

- they have linked crime directly to environmental design and urbanisation

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Social Deviance

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  • Major concern for Chicago sociologists
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Social Deviance Definition

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violation of society’s norms or rules for appropriate behaviour

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Social Deviance as a _____

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Social Problem

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Used two main methods of research

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1) official data - census data, but Chicago school used Chicago specific data

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Used two main methods of research

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2) the life history method or ethnography - talking to people, interviewing, observations,

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Robert Park

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  • Chicago sociologist
  • Applied principles of plant & animal ecology to understanding criminal deviance and cases
  • ecological perspective (school of thought)
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Robert Park

Observations

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1) racial, class and other group associations affect one another’s daily lives
2) these groups are also affected by a variety of conditions in the urban environment, including land use, property values, location of industry, and natural boundaries (rivers, highways, railroad lines)

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Robert Park

Factors relationships name

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“Social system”

- human equivalent of an “eco-system”

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Robert Park
Sociological Analysis of City Life
(2)

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1) Symbiosis

2) Invasion, Domination & Succession

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Robert Park

Symbiosis

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  • refers to a condition of mutual interdependence among organisms in an environment that is necessary for survival
    example: like how trees and humans need eachother
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Robert Park

Symbiosis

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  • elimination of affordable housing for disadvantaged people in city will require them to adapt and relocate, large scale unaffordability causes larger problems in terms of homelessness, crime, disorder and other concerns
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Robert Park
Symbiosis
Most Important Thing

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  • human ecology is the idea that changes in any part of the social system affect all other components
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Robert Park

Invasion, Domination & Succession

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  • in plant and animal ecology, refers to a sequential process that involves species competing with each other for scarce resources, thus changing the balance of relationships in a given geographical area. New species drive out competitors, come to dominate the environment and eventually form stable interdependencies themselves with other species of animal and plant life.
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Robert Park

Invasion, Domination & Succession

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  • industrial and commercial establishments reclaim slum areas, seeing these parts of the city as inexpensive investment properties with potential for increased value. Investors purchase dilapidated housing at low costs; the people who lived in these run-down areas may have their (rented) homes sold from under them to be replaced with new business or fancy condos, or find themselves unwelcome in the new, gentrifying environment. The original inhabitants are often displaced to other parts of the city. When they are displaced they may also have difficulty finding alternative affordable housing.
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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)

Concentric Zone Theory

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1) Loop Zone
2) Transition Zone
3) Workingmens Home Zone
4) Residential Zone
5) Commuter Zone

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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)
Concentric Zone Theory
Loop

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  • core of city
  • commerce, industry and government can afford these high prices
  • banks, stores, hotels, theatres, public transportation & government offices
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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)
Concentric Zone Theory
Transition Zone

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  • property value is eroded
  • property owners here believe that they will be torn down to make room for industrial and commercial expansion, don’t maintain their buildings
  • low-rent, run-down dwellings for marginalized and immigrant population
    Natural Area: Ghettos
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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)
Concentric Zone Theory
Workingmens Homes

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  • inexpensive two and three family dwellings
  • migrated outward from the transitional zone
    Natural Areas: communities united by ethnic or religious ties
    (railway tracks, rivers or roads)
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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)
Concentric Zone Theory
Residential

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  • more expensive apartments and dwellings occupied by middle class
  • small business’ and professional offices
    Natural Areas: communities united by ethnic or religious ties
    (railway tracks, rivers or roads)
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Robert Park & Ernest Burgess (1924)
Concentric Zone Theory
Commuter

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  • residences of more affluent commuter population

- richer people

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Social Disorganization Theory

Shaw and McKay (1942)

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  • work established off of Ernest and Burgess
  • Found that crime rates are highest in transitional zone
  • different types of people are always in the transitional zone, can’t connect with neighbours
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Cultural Transmission Theory

Shaw and McKay

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  • social disorganization leads to criminal activity by highlighting role of cultural transmission
  • population looked down upon, population unstable, little work, no money for schools, health care.
  • Don’t like law enforcement, children have few or no part time jobs, recreation or positive opportunities.
    this results in criminal behaviour among youth
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Symbolic Interaction & Culture Conflict

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  • Relativist view
    Relativist view = no absolutes - behaviour is defined as unacceptable by one community or in one historical context could be defined as acceptable in another
    Example: homosexuality used to be a sin, but now it is allowed in most places
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Deviant Places - 5 Characteristics

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1) Density
2) Poverty
3) Mixed use of Space
4) Transience
5) Dilapidation

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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Density

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  • deviant neighbourhoods crowded, densely populated areas
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Poverty

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  • deviant neighbourhoods impoverished, and inhabited by people who work long hours for little pay or unemployed
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Mixed use of Space

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  • deviant neighbourhoods have both residents and commercial use of space.
  • they are side by side, sometimes same building
  • strangers in area who come to access businesses but do not reside there
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Transience

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  • high rates of residents turnovers and people moves in and out of area
  • residents don’t get to know or develop strong relationships with neighbours because constantly changing
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Dilapidation

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  • run down and not maintained
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Law Enforcement

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  • may be initially over-policed but over time come to be ignored
  • over-policing makes them feel targeted and reduced trust in police and they will then stop calling for assistance expect for most serious cases
  • since under policed they are attractive for those engaging in deviant behaviour
    (drug dealing)
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Deviant Places
Rodney Stark (1987)
Important Concept

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place

how does it become bad?

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Alice Coleman (1989)
Design Disadvantage
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  • crime rates can be lowered by reducing area’s design disadvantage
  • there could be individual yards for each house or flat, rather than communal this gives a sense of belonging, increasing time spent outside, getting to know neighbours
    CPTED (crime prevention through environmental design)
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Defensible Space

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  • space clearly defined through range of real and symbolic barriers that allow residents to defend and control that space
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Collective Efficacy

Sampson et al (1998)

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Mutual trust among neighbours combined with willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, specifically to supervise children and maintain public order

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Collective Efficacy

Sampson et al (1998)

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  • neighbourhoods characterized by high collective efficacy have lower crime rates, regardless of level of poverty of racial composition

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