What is the definition of Urban Crime?
What are the causes of Urban Crime?
Consequences of Urban Crime
Examples of Urban Crime.
Consider the relevance of crime distribution, what it means and what influences it.
Refers to work carried out by the University of Chicago in the 1920's and 1930's...
Topics
➤ Social Ecology
➤ Appreciative Sociology ( Cultural Ethnography) an
➤ Key theories proposed by the Chicago School
➤ A closer look at
➤ Zonal Theory
➤ Social Disorganisation theory
➤ Differential Association Theory
,What Is Social Ecology?
Ecology
• Study of plants and animals in
interrelationships and interdep
• Plant life and animal life seen a
interconnected (eco)system
Social ecology
, Appreciative Sociology - the Ethno
The Chicago sociologists took great pride in th
out in what researchers call ‘the field’ – in
streets, in parks and
immigrants, homeless
Watching, listening, talking
Participant observation
• Letting people tell own stories - biographical
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, Social Ecology - To
• University of Chicago sociologis
industrial and commercial expa
Invades / disturbs ‘metabolism
communities) in city
• Durkheim sought to establish ru
sociological method within a p
framework of social scientific a
, Social ecology, urban crim
➤ The city ➤
•
• A living organism through
ecology of plant life
• ‘Struggle for space’ •
➤ – Invasion, dominance,
succession •
• Healthy (urban) society – •
symbiotic balance
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