CRIMINOLOGY THEORY

Criminology theory

Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “criminology” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “criminology” and its relation with “social disorganization theory.” The research also analyzes many aspects of “criminology” and tries to gauge its effect on “social disorganization theory.” Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for “criminology,” and tries to describe the overall effect of “criminology” on “social disorganization theory.”

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT2

INTRODUCTION4

DISCUSSION4

CONCLUSION8

REFERENCES9

Criminological Theory Review

Introduction

Criminology is a multidisciplinary science, which bases its foundations in their own knowledge of sociology, psychology, and social anthropology, taking for this conceptual framework that defines the criminal law. Criminology studies the causes of crime and recommends remedies for antisocial behavior of man. Criminological research areas include the incidence and forms of crime and its causes and consequences. They also collect social reactions and government regulations regarding the crime. French anthropologist Paul Topinard in the years 1885, Italian law professor Rafael Garofalo coined the term, first used the name of this science (Deflem 2006).

In this report, we will discuss the social disorganization theory of criminology from the perspective of different experts in the field of criminology.

Discussion

According to the theory of social disorganization, a person's social and physical environments are mainly accountable for the behavioral selections, which a person has to make. In peculiar, the likely of crime occurrence in a locality, which has fretting sociable structures, is much more as compared to the other localities. Such a locality could have vandalized and vacant buildings, poor schools, high level of unemployment, and a combination of residential and commercial property.

We can define social disorganization as the unfitness of members of the community to accomplish some common values and lack of ability of the members of the society to figure out problems that they are facing together (Bursik, 1988). In the past few decades, experts in the field of social disorganization criminology like Grasmick and Bursik (1993), and Groves and Sampson (1989) have extended and articulated the different themes of social disorganization. McKay and Shaw have managed to trace social disorganization to preconditions that are indigenous to the citified areas, which were the only places where the freshly arrived poor people could have afforded to live their life, in peculiar, an elevated rate of turnover in the population, i.e. residential instability and amalgamate of people from several cultural backgrounds, i.e. ethnic diversity. Analyses of Shaw and McKay regarding the rates of delinquency to these structural features built key facts regarding the community correlatives of delinquency and crime, and their work is helpful in today's world, as guidance for attempts to deal with delinquency and crime at the level of a community.

Pioneers of the social disorganization theory, i.e. Henry D. McKay and Clifford R. Shaw have made a suggestion that we can characterize muddled communities through ethnic diversity, poverty, and residential mobility.

Attenuated controls in the social community have extended to the unfitness of different communities to resolve a number of problems that successively has guided the ...