Social Disorganization Theory

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The Chicago school of Criminology studied the correlation between humans and society, social ecology. Criminologist introduced the idea that a person could become a criminal depending on their environment. For example, those who grew up in high-poverty neighborhoods were more likely to break the law in order to, I guess you could say balance out their social displacement. A major foundation of the School of Chicago is Social Disorganization theory. The underlying assumption of this theory is that crime is a result of structural causes within a region rather than the individual. The key factors when measuring social disorganization are Poverty, Residential mobility and population heterogeneity. These three indicators of social disorganization

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