Lecture 9 Urban Disorganization and Crime- Social life in the inner zone is corrupted and most people are trying to move out- The task of making a sociological model is to develop later theorems- Shaw and McKay - Social disorganization refers to the inability of a community structure to realize the common values of its residents and maintain effective social controls. (Sampson and Groves)- The only assumption concerning consensus that is necessary … is that citizens of American communities desire to live in residential communities that are relatively free from the threat of serious crime. (Bursik and Grasmick)- Living in a stable place is something that all people and all communities value- Three levels of social controls which may or may not happening in communitieso what social control is? actively preventing crime with a particular areao Private level of control Focuses on the networks that integrate residents into the intimate informal primary groups of a neighborhood. people in face to face interaction takes place between families, friends, etc. (people that already know one another)o Parochial Level of Control represents interpersonal networks in which communication among the members of the system does not have the same degree of intimacy as at the private level within organizations, people maintain orders. directed toward outsiders. people take actions to prevent people from outside of the organization to commit crime- Sampson and Groves' Social Disorganization and Crime Model- there are two variableso Exogenous variables what get things started communities, physical, and social characteristics allow for or cause social disorganization people are pooro intervening variables what then directly cause or trying to explain, in the case, crime and delinquency Sparse local friendship networks Dense social networks: everybody knows everyone else directly- Private social control is weako We don't care about what strangers are doing but we care about what our friends are doingo In a disorganized community, people don't really know one anothero In a disorganized neighborhood, gangs are allow to formo Crime takes place in groups- Interstitial groupso gangs fit within the gaps of in a social structure- Materialist Fallacyo direct effectso indirect effects- people don't get married in poor communities, high rate of single mom- cultural disorganization- Crime is allowed to happen because nothing control
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