The industrial age brought with it the birth of a dream, competition brought the world into a new era, and America was at the forefront. Profitable markets offered a new way of life for anyone willing to work hard, and the era was full of revolutionary creations to make life more comfortable. As a result, many people flocked to the cities from their once-segregated communities in hopes of finding work and realizing the dream, but expectations were not achievable for everyone. Urban centers quickly became overcrowded with people of different cultural backgrounds forced to live and assimilate with each other causing a breakdown in the order of human life, this is where the social roots of crime would be discovered and Chicago would take center stage. It was during this time that Chicago gained the rights to host the World's Fair and with it saw an increase in the city's population and where researchers from the Chicago School and elsewhere would dispel crime as reasoned action or genetic circumstance. Crime would be found 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 by theorizing that the city was at the root of social life. process. City enclaves according to Parks caused conflict by forcing people to assimilate and associate with others resulting in cultural clashes that laid the foundation of what many theorists would study as the motive for crime (Lilly, Cullen, & Ball, 2011). The natural socialization process was disrupted according to Parks similar to that of the ecological structure present in nature and as such was seen as one of the factors influencing human behavior. Burgess took the study further by creating a diag... middle of paper... of the era might even have been a necessary evil as Durkheim suggested making it more likely that civil disobedience would later emerge from that period period. References Akers, R.L., & Sellers, C.S. (2013). Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.Brym, R. J., & Lie, J. (2010). Sociology: Your Compass to a New World, The Short Edition (Enhanced 2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.Jacoby, J.E., Severance, T.A., & Bruce, A.S. (2012). Classics of Criminology (4th ed.). Long Grove, Illinois: 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.