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This 8 page paper examines several of the theories of deviance that have been developed over the years. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the society in which it occurs. This paper examines several of the theories of deviance that have been developed over the years. Definitions of Deviance Clifford Shaw and
Henry McKay developed a theory of social disorganization in the early 1900s; they were in fact the first to present "modern sociological and social psychological explanations of delinquency and crime"
(Wong, 2005). In the early 20th century, early research into crime used charts to "show spatial distributions of delinquency and crime" (Wong, 2005). That is, the researchers would
take maps and put pins in them (or mark them in other ways) to indicate the neighborhoods where the most crimes occurred (Wong, 2005). This was the "Cartographic School"
approach, and it supported "environmental explanations of criminality, but could not provide a fundamental theory that contributed to the explanation of these results" (Wong, 2005). What this sort of research
did show, however, was that in some neighborhoods, traditional institutions could no longer control individual behavior, and the "lack of control by traditional institutions over individuals initiated social change known
as Social Disorganization" (Wong, 2005). The "social disorganization theory" was formulated in the 1920s and can be defined as "the decline of influence on existing social rules of behavior
upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was unable to "realize common values and ... solve the
problems of its residents," with the result that social control within that community broke down (Wong, 2005). The social disorganization theory said that "delinquency was not caused at the
individual level, but was considered to be the normal response of normal individuals to abnormal social conditions" (Wong, 2005). What Shaw and McKay did was to find the link
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