The industrial age brought with it the birth of a dream, competition led the world into a new era and America was at the forefront. Lucrative markets offered a new way of life to anyone willing to work hard and the era was filled with revolutionary creations to make life more comfortable. As a result, many people flocked to the cities, from their formerly segregated communities, in hopes of finding work and living their dreams, but the expectations were not attainable for all. City centers quickly became overcrowded with people of different cultural backgrounds forced to live and assimilate with one another, causing a breakdown in the order of human life. This is where the social roots of crime would be uncovered and Chicago would take center stage. It was at this time that Chicago won the right to host the World's Fair and thus saw its population increase and scholars from the Chicago School and elsewhere dispelled the crime as reasoned action. or a genetic circumstance. Crime would be right in the heart of growing cities, like Chicago, and a rapid invasion would lead to disorganization and tension. Robert E. Parks and Ernest Burgess would lead the way in theorizing that the city was the origin of social life. process. According to Parks, the city's enclaves caused conflicts forcing people to assimilate and associate with others, causing cultural clashes that laid the foundation for what many theorists would study as the reason for crime ( Lilly, Cullen and Ball, 2011). The natural process of socialization had been disrupted according to Parks, similar to that of the ecological structure found in nature and, as such, was considered one of the factors impacting human behavior. Burgess took the study further by creating a diagnosis...... middle of paper...... of the time might even have been a necessary evil, as Durkheim implied, making more probable civil disobedience at this time. period.ReferencesAkers, RL and Sellers, CS (2013). Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (Sixth ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Brym, R.J. and Lie, J. (2010). Sociology: your compass for a new world, the brief edition (2nd improved ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Jacoby, JE, Severance, TA and Bruce, AS (2012). Classics of Criminology (4th ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. Lilly, J. Robert, Francis T. Cullen, and Richard A. Ball. (2011). Criminological theory: context and consequences (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications, Inc. Weatherburn, D. (2001). What causes crime?. BOCSAR NSW Crime and Justice Bulletins, 11.