Reference no: EM134010972

Assignment:

a) How do Chicago school theories (and sociological theories generally) differ from Positivist theories in their explanations of crime and deviance.

b) Begin by describing the social conditions in Chicago (and other urban cities) in the late 1920s-early 1940s.

c) How did social ecology influence the work of sociologists (and urban planners) in explaining in which zone crime and deviance were clustered, and what were the features of these areas (the work of Park and Burgess)?

d) Define and explain the 3 social factors of Shaw and McKay's Social disorganization theory.

e) Provide an example (and explain) of a policy connected to SDT.

f) Sampson and Groves added other factors to Shaw and McKay's early theory to their contemporary version of SDT. Explain 2 of them.

g) Define 2 influential concepts to explain what those living in socially disorganized neighbourhoods lack and are, thus, unable to control crime and deviance.

h) Residents who live in "bad" and high crime neighbourhoods are often blamed for crime and deviance without a consideration of other external factors. Discuss other factors that are often out of their control.

i) Define redlining (and zoning) and associated impacts on racialized groups in the US and connections to housing and neighbourhoods.

j) Discuss Canadian connections (past or present) to neighbourhoods or communities that have been moved and destroyed according to priorities of governments and real estate developers.