CJ511 - Nature of Crime

Module 6 - Social Organization

Readings

• Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapter 6
• Online Reserves

Discussion Topics

	Does the punishment fit the crime? Is it important that there be some correlation between seriousness and sanction?
	How can rapid social change lead to increased crime rates?
	Public nudity is illegal. Knowing this, you wear clothing at a nudist camp. Does this make you a deviant?

Module Links

The Chicago School

http://www.indiana.edu/~theory/Kip/Chicago.htm

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/chicago.htm

Crime and Social Disorganization

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3315/disorg.html

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/social.html

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/socdisor.html

The Chicago School's Descendants

Theory of Disadvantagement

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fbe/commsafe/crime.htm

Broken Windows

http://www.onpatrol.com/cs.brokwin.html 

http://www.cjcj.org/jpi/windows.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/crime/windows.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/wilson/presentation.html

Cartographic criminology

http://tectonic.nationalgeographic.com/2000/exploration/crimemaps/text.html

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc/

http://www.ncjrs.org/html/nij/mapping/pdf.html

http://search.usdoj.gov/compass?scope=crime+mapping&ui=sr&view-template=dojsimple

CPTED

http://www.cptedtraining.net/

http://www.cpted-watch.com/

http://www.ncpc.org/2add4dc.htm

http://www.sunny.org/mpc.htm

Routine Activities Theory

http://www.indiana.edu/~theory/Kip/Routine.htm 

http://www.drugtext.org/articles/98911.htm

Collective efficacy and new parochialism

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/991104/neighbor.shtml

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/991215.neighbor-crime.shtml

http://www.ncpc.org/neigh.htm

http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/POLICE/bwabstat.html

Anomie Theory

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3315/anomie.html

http://www.faculty.ncwc.edu/TOConnor/301/301lect09.htm

Durkheim's Theory of Anomie 

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/anomie.htm

Mechanical vs. Organic solidarity societies

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/suicide.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/edurkheim.html (functionalism and crime)

The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim

http://durkheim.itgo.com/crime.html

http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/Summaries/rules.html

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/crijus/courses/durkhei.htm

Merton's Theory of Anomie 

Deviant Adaptations

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/strain.html

http://csumb.edu/academic/centers/sbsc/sbsc300b/merton.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/mertonan.html

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/mert_str.htm

Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton

http://www.crimetheory.com/Merton/index.html

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/strain.html

Two interrelated phases of social structure and culture goals

Differential emphases

http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~mrushton/Illegitimate.html

Subcultural Theories

Cohen's Theory of the Delinquent Subculture  

Status frustration

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3315/cohen.html

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/subcul.html

Other Subcultural Theories  

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/criminology/subculturaltheory/index.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3315/miller.html

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/subcult.html

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/subcultu.htm

Walter B. Miller

Ritualization of lower class gangs   

http://mulerider.saumag.edu/~milford/crime/culture.html

Wolfgang and Ferracuti

Subculture of violence

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/wolfgang.htm