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Msgana Semere Discuss-"Crime is a function of ecology" Ecology and it's theories in relation to crime and deviance stress that the cause of crime is to be found in the way the physical environment in which people live and socially interact generates the conditions for criminal behaviour. Ecological theories are very much closely connected with functionalist sub cultural theories; they both adopt a positivist approach. As well as ecologists functionalist sub cultural theories tend to emphasise the significance of the physical environment especially on the way various sub-cultural groups develop their own particular norms and values reflecting both their physical and material situation. Ecological theories of crime and deviance developed mainly from the work of "Chicago School" of Human Ecology. They are collection of criminologists/ human ecologists who work at the university of Chicago in the 1920's and 1930's. They had many influential forerunners paving the way for their research. Ferdinand Tonnies...

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