Sociology of deviance or criminal sociology consists in taking account of The multiple realities of modern life and everyday social experiences and finding out the delinquency causation.
The first concern of this paper is+to review the changing histo...
Sociology of deviance or criminal sociology consists in taking account of The multiple realities of modern life and everyday social experiences and finding out the delinquency causation.
The first concern of this paper is+to review the changing historical-social context with related to the social control and crime patterns before and after the 19th century urbanization in Europe and America The city life and urban environments has raised personal anxiety providing incentives for Community crimes. Major patten of urban crime is the property crime which has been getting more abundant in quantity and variety since urbanization as the rural-urban migration had been intensified, while the rural crime Pattern is the crime of violence.
The conditions of urban industrializing societies like America fostered "the criminogenic culture" which has broken the traditional norms and heightened the new values including the material possession, impersonal relationships, values oriented toward social status, resistance against and coexistence of subcultures Consequntly property criminal turns out to be most frequent, most prevalent pattern and juvenile delinquancy has rapidly been increasing.
The second centent of this paper includes the examination and conparison of the alternative sociological criminal theories and deviant formulations. They are classified into two groups, one of which, entitled, "the sociological positive determinism", focuses on the sociological determinants, such as the deviant social world, the lower classs natural areas within the urban community and their subultures, disorganizations and anomie etc., as the etiologies of the urban Juvenile delinquency The other group, the so-called "the new radical, critical theories", interprets the deviant acts in reverse approach attempting to disclose the official reactions damaging the self-identity of offenders or emphasizing the material conditions of competitive econonic system, which produces egoistic motives and undermines social integrations making crime or deviance inevitable.
Both groups of deviant theories handle only the socia-cultural factors among the multitude of peronal-situational fastors Accordingly we could not he satisfied until we examine all the other potential canses at the same time because clime or delinquency is a product of multiple causes, and we should admit the fact that the ever changing situations and values would produce other timetable perspectives about sccial control and deviant behavior.