HUMAN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY

A perspective of crime under social influence

Abstract

The problem we seek to answer with this article is what is the contribution of human ecology and environmental criminology to the understanding of crime as a social phenomenon? The general objective of the article was to relate the criminal ecology (behavior) of the Chicago School with the criminological theories of Environmental Criminology. In order to achieve this general objective, we defined two specific subjects: the first was to demonstrate the dynamics of crime, knowing how, why, when and where crime occurs, from a multidisciplinary perspective, involving sociological, economic, psychological and, even, architectural constructions; The second was to expose each theory of crime in a context of understanding environmental criminology, we expose how the environment immediately considered is directly related to the criminal occurrence. At end we were able to infer that crime is a social phenomenon but that it requires the will of the agent to be carried out, therefore a rational choice is necessary for its occurrence. The methodology used was a qualitative approach with bibliographic and documentary research.