Multiple Choice
Why did researchers Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay decide to look for structural causes of criminality in Chicago neighborhoods as opposed to studying individual-level causes?
A) Because the correlation between individual-level causes of criminality had been disproven by the social scientific community.
B) Criminology had yet to develop scientifically sound research methods to study individual-level causes of criminality.
C) The population was too wary of researchers to consent to being research subjects.
D) Crime rates appeared to be tied to location, not people, because crime rates remained constant even when the entire population moved out and new groups of people moved in.
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