Midterm 1 Flashcards
1) _ Wilson and Kellig
2) _ Anderson
3) _ Shaw and McKay
4) _ Sampson and Wilson
5) _ Sampson and Groves
6) _ Sampson and Raidenbush
A) broken windows b) code of the street
C) social disorganization d) rave and urbanizing
E) collective efficacy f) social networks
1) a
2) B
3) c
4) d
5) f
6) e
Social disorganization theory:
Neighborhoods with high povert/low SES, residential instability, and immigration concentration lead to delinquency
Does social disorganization depend on who lives there? Why?
No
Because it has to Dorothy social conditions of that zone, that then cause a rippling effect
What does low social control lead to?
Leads to unsupervised adolescents, which leads to crime
Why do unsupervised adolescents lead to crime?
Because adults not likely to intervene when they see adolescents doing something wrong in neighborhood
What leads to structural racism? (3)
Less jobs, deindustrialization, white-flight (ppl leaving)
Neighborhood concentrated disadvantage:
Historical and contemporary structural discrimination
What are the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage? (2)
Discourages cohesion, monitoring of youth
Racial segregation:
Blacks isolated from normative society, viewpoint that support illegal behavior
What is the belief that concentration of 1 ethnic group can lead to?
Less opportunities be isolation, hyper-segregation, less broaden networks
Broken window theory:
Minor community disorganization that isn’t fixed will lead to more disorganization
Does the broken window theory only depend on low SES communities?
No, can occur in higher SES communities also
Collective efficacy:
Working trust, willingness to intervene in order to establish social control, close relationships
Redlining:
Discrimination by institutions that refuse/limit loans or mortgages w/in geographic areas
Factors of concentrated disadvantage - (4)
High levels of poverty
Public assistance
Unemployment
Female-headed households
What are the 3 concentric zones (inner to outer)
1) zone in transition - newcomers, factory jobs, inexpensive housing
2) zone of working men’s homes - 2nd gen of immigrants
3) residential/commuters zone - middle/upper class homeowners live
Differential association theory:
Thru interactions w/ others, individuals learn necessary skills, values, attitudes for criminal behavior
Strain theory:
How ppl adapt to conditions of anomie in society
Anomie:
A sense of social regulation/breakdown
Code of the streets:
Set of informal rules governing behavior
Why is the code of the streets a cycle?
Because the hopelessness/alienation results in the violence they engage in — oppositional culture
Social disorganization theory def.
Rapid social change and physical deterioration associated w/ breakdown of comm. social control, leads to delinquency
Moral order:
Cohesiveness of ppl
Code of the silence:
Prevents residents from reporting crime to police
