In the early 1920s to 1930s society has undergone a lot of changes, which was evident that from a sociological standpoint a lot of communities have been effected due industrialization, predominantly poverty and other social factors. Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay who were employed and researcher at the University of Chicago decided to research crime as initially suggested by other scholars’ who provided a basis for understanding the social roots of crime. Shockingly, the research conducted by Shaw and McKay’s concluded that delinquency flourish in poor neighborhood as opposed to more affluent communities. In spite of that, Chicago’s court records were able to justify that crime was higher in poor neighborhood. Both Shaw and McKay were
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For instance, when an offender commits a crime, the individual willingly break the law knowingly that it is wrong. Other theories such as positivisms’ approach focus on biological factors which explaining the causation of crime. In week’s reading module three, the Chicago school of thought highlight a different methodology in an attempts to get a better understanding to crime as opposed to positivist and classical school. According to Pratt and Cullen, the researcher who examined the structural cause of social disorganization in understanding social issues; particularly family dysfunction, which is poverty, racial, ethnic heterogeneity, and residential mobility to say the least. These approaches viewed as sociological factors which often resulted in criminal activity. Besides, the Chicago school of thought, ideology rejects the notion of individual free will, and the belief is that criminal is not born. Instead, people end up breaking the law because of certain environmental factors which they grew in. Notably, this view holds true in a lot of neighborhoods throughout the United States as crimes have been on the rise for decades. Many of these social issues are factors that both Shaw and McKay have extensively researched, and advocating as to the explanation of the geographical area that has a higher rate
For instance, when an offender commits a crime, the individual willingly break the law knowingly that it is wrong. Other theories such as positivisms’ approach focus on biological factors which explaining the causation of crime. In week’s reading module three, the Chicago school of thought highlight a different methodology in an attempts to get a better understanding to crime as opposed to positivist and classical school. According to Pratt and Cullen, the researcher who examined the structural cause of social disorganization in understanding social issues; particularly family dysfunction, which is poverty, racial, ethnic heterogeneity, and residential mobility to say the least. These approaches viewed as sociological factors which often resulted in criminal activity. Besides, the Chicago school of thought, ideology rejects the notion of individual free will, and the belief is that criminal is not born. Instead, people end up breaking the law because of certain environmental factors which they grew in. Notably, this view holds true in a lot of neighborhoods throughout the United States as crimes have been on the rise for decades. Many of these social issues are factors that both Shaw and McKay have extensively researched, and advocating as to the explanation of the geographical area that has a higher rate