Similarities Between Shaw And Mckay

Urban studies in the 19th century in Europe found correlations between delinquency and certain social factors, such as poverty, however, it wasn’t until the work of Shaw and McKay that actual criminological theories emerged (Shoemaker, 2000). Also, even though the concept of anomie was promulgated by Emile Durkhein, the French sociologist, yet it found its way in theories of crime when Americans began to study social factors, such as social disorganization. The underlying premise in turning a critical eye on society to help explain crime is that it is the structure and institutions of society that are in disarray (Shoemaker, 2000).

Shaw and McKay set the stage It wasn’t Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay who first wrote about the concentric