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The "Chicago School" is considered foundational to many who study crime and society. What is important about it? What did it accomplish if anything?

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Provides an explanation of the importance of the "Chicago School" in our judicial system.

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The "Chicago School" is important because it is the fundamental principle that we learn our criminology that we are not looking at the criminal as individual who is born to be criminal. "The theme of the Chicago school focused upon human behavior as determined by social and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic, personal characteristics. The school ...

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