Collective Efficacy Flashcards
what is the premise of the Collective Efficacy theory?
Proposes that the level of social cohesion/control within a community can influence its ability to influence crime/social order.
Communities with low collective efficacy have ____ crime rates
High
What are the two components of collective efficacy?
Social Cohesion & informal social control
What is Informal Social Control
Unnoficial methods used by a community to regulate laws/norms
What is Social Cohesion
The measure of how well individuals in a community cooperate, trust, and support each other.
Which component Is more essential for influencing crime rates: Social Cohesion or Informal Social Control
Informal Social control
Are measures of Collective Efficacy better at predicting crime rates than measures of Social Disorganization?
Yes, Social disorganization emphasizes the breakdown of social institutions while focusing on certain neighborhood characteristics like poverty & residential mobility
Collective efficacy has shown that crime is low in high collective efficacy areas even though poverty might still be prevalent, it emphasizes the influence that strong social ties and shared norms has on crime prevention.
Collective Efficacy explains how crime happens in ______
communities
Areas with low Socioeconomic status (SES), high concentration of minorities, and not many people moving out have more crime because these neighborhoods do not have _____
The appropriate resources/opportunities to flourish/residential mobility
According to collective efficacy, is incarceration a good crime control policy?
No, incarceration does not address the root causes of crime or contribute to long-term crime reduction.
According to collective efficacy, what should we focus on to reduce crime?
We should focus on changing the conditions of high-crime neighborhoods (Chicago project) Focus on how crime is influenced by disadvantages like unemployment/population density
