Robert J. Sampson s Theories On Urban Neighborhoods And...

Robert J. Sampson is a criminologist, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the sociology department at Harvard University. He focuses heavily on the intersectionalities of race, poverty, age, and broken families in urban neighborhoods throughout his career. Robert emphasis that these intersectionalities are the causation of crime. Sampson is not a personality, biological, or opportunity theorist, but an soc-ecology theorist. He uses his theories that are more in a macro level. Sampson frequently studies the connection between neighborhoods and criminal behavior. He published many articles with many great criminologists, and wrote theories on urban neighborhoods. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of†¦show more content†¦He realize how important it is to know the psychological aspect of an individual, but felt the obligation to look at the fundamentals of social patterns. In 1977 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He then entered graduate school in SUNY Albany, where he is specifically studying sociology and the roles of society. While doing that he met and work with powerful sociologists. One of the sociologist Travis Hirschi, who help him promote his research on crime from his article Causes of Delinquency. It was his most cited and influential studies of crime, and he became more interested in criminology. Sampson was also introduced to sociologists that made a huge impact on his whole career. The Chicago School of Urban Sociology talked about the rapidly growing population in the early 1900s in Chicago. In that particular time. Sociologist focus on the social criminal behavior can be influenced by urbanization, immigration, and social structures. Sampson said â€Å"One way I look at the city is to try to understand how different social phenomena are clustered in the same places and follow similar patterns over time.† (Profile of Robert J. Sampson) Sampson move to Chicago where he had a faculty teaching position in 1984 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. But in 1991 he went to the University of Chicago, where he develops a project to study the urban neighborhoods in Chicago. Sampson and other researchers created thisShow MoreRelatedPoverty Is Not Only An Individual Problem2983 Words   |  12 PagesPoverty is not only an individual problem, but a societal problem. Harrell R. Rodgers wrote an article, â€Å"Why are People Poor in America?† Rodgers gives two categories of theories that are used when cultural /behavioral or structural/economic. Behavior/culture theorists look at the behavior, culture and values of the poor as the reason for poverty. While structural /ecIn western culture statistics are an excessively used tool in describing social issues. Numbers help explain a situation, butRead MoreEssay on Criminological Theories13456 Words   |  54 PagesStudent Study Guide for Ronald L. Akers and Christine S. Sellers’ Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Applications Fourth Edition Prepared by Eric See Youngstown State University Roxbury Publishing Company Los Angeles, California 1 Student Study Guide by Eric See for Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application , 4th Edition by Ronald L. Akers and Christine S. Sellers Copyright  © 2004 Roxbury Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CaliforniaRead MoreEssay on The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison12486 Words   |  50 PagesAmerican University or the same criminal behavior, the poor are more likely to be arrested; if arrested, they are more likely to be charged; if charged, more likely to be convicted; if convicted, more likely to be sentenced to prison; and if sentenced, more likely to be given longer prison terms than members of the middle and upper classes.1 In other words, the image of the criminal population one sees in our nation’s jails and prisons is distorted by the shape of the criminal justice system itself. It