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Explanations of criminal behaviour which make reference to delinquent subcultures can be found amongst the groups of sociologists known as the Chicago School.
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Explanations of criminal behaviour which make reference to delinquent subcultures can be found amongst the groups of sociologists known as the Chicago School. This school (represented by theorists such as Robert Park, Clifford Shaw and Henry MacKay) also became known as the ecological school because of their concentration upon the effects of the urban environment on individual behaviour. The growth of the modern city was seen to produce distinctive neighbourhoods and life styles and the development of delinquent subcultures. Shaw and MacKay in "Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas" (1942) divide the city of Chicago into five zones, each one at two mile intervals radiating in concentric circles from the central business district. In a statistical analysis of each zone, Shaw and MacKay discovered that the male rates of delinquency were at their highest in zone one (the area closest to the city centre or central business district) while the lowest rate...
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