Lecture 8 Shaw & McKay Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas- Cities are the center of the major social problems. Crimes are concentrated in urban areas- Pathological about city life. - Perspective on socio ecology: o focus on individualso Theories of kinds of people/places - People commit crimes because something is wrong with them. They are biologically or psychologically defective- Tribute crimes to places- Shaw and McKay didn't give us clear or particular theories. Perspective on crime- They collected impressive amount data without computer- Socio ecology perspective developed in the University of Chicago. Because Chicago is constantly changing, it's receiving a lot of immigrants from Europe- Socio ecology was developed when the sociology itself was information- Theorist named Robert Park. The cities- Ernest Burgess Concentric Zone Theory o show how different zones relate to one anothero city of early 20 centuryo cities had changed a lot by the 1920so Zone 1 loop: downtown factories were built in the city centero Zone 2: zone 2: zone in transition most clearly see how a city grows a city expanded from center outward factories in the inner parto Zone 3 where workers live: close to factory zoneo Zone 4 residential zone: single family zoneo Zone 5 people who have enough money- Shaw and McKay wanted to show that social problems become more in the inner zones and become less in the outer zone- Inner city areas provided a lot cheap housing to immigrants or transients. People didn't spend too much time in those inner zones. Inner zones are poor and cheap- Inner city zones were decreasing. Losing population about 22 - 39%- Outer zones were gaining about 40%. Population is piling up in the outer zones- Juvenile delinquencyo steal something at age of 18, skip schools, underage drinking, etc- Children of immigrants have high rate of juvenile delinquency- Immigrant culture in America: o the culture of these people didn't mesh with American society- Area of residence is what creating the patterns- The same ecological conditions in an area which generates juvenile delinquency. It effects entire life course of a kid- Social Disorganizationo A condition in which locality has no consistent value system and where social institutionsare weak or nonexistento Boys are often delinquento If the study apply to other US citieso Richmond,VA - same pattern with Chicago - follows same patterns of the delinquency
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