Concentric Zone Model

The ecological criminology research concentrated on urban areas, especially big cities because of their high crime rates than in suburbs or rural areas (Roh & Choo, 2008). With the new era in crime brought a great demands to focus on the suburbs area describe as zone of commuters predominately composed of the white middle class people (Roh & Choo, 2008). Since the 1950, the population grew with poor immigrant workers moving into the inner city seeking employment, and the older residents moving into residential environments leaving the social characteristics of suburbs to become diverse (Roh & Choo, 2008). The growth changed the structural features of the suburbs resulting in numerous social problems such as crime, disorder, unemployment, …show more content…
In 1925, Ernest Burgess revealed the Chicago’s problem areas using the Concentric Zone Model that exposed the cities expanded from the center and to make five concentric zones, each with differing characteristics (Roh & Choo, 2008). The Concentric Zone Model have five different rings that display the internal structure of cities growth in which social groups are arranged in a series of rings that explain the distribution of different social groups within urban areas (Bunyi, 2010). The different rings of the Concentric Zone Model are central business district, zone of transition, zone of the working class, zone of better residence, and commuter’s zone. As the city develops, the central business district will exert pressure on the zone directly surrounding it; the zone of transition will suffer from continuous invasion and conflict, resulting in a breakdown of the social control structure (Bunyi, 2010) (Roh & Choo,