Social Disorganization

Social Disorganization

What is social disorganization?

Social disorganization theory provides an explanation of crime on the social level, and is dependent on the psychology of the criminal processes of the functioning of society as a whole. Perhaps, this theory has the most significant influence on the development in the XX century in the world of criminology. In it, in particular, successfully combines an abstract concept to the study of concrete material. The founder of a French sociologist is Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), whose ideas were developed and revised by an American, Robert Merton, and other methodological basis of the theory ...