CRM 2310 Lecture Notes - Santana Row, Rowan V. United States Post Office Department, Antithesis
31 Jan 2014
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What is so good about community: community is often times used for the reason why crime exists. Community is both the reason for crime and fixing community is thought to be the way we can deal with crime the most effectively: either mental illness or inherently bad. Explanation lies within the perpetrator: community interventions say that this is not the case, criminals are influenced by the place of which they live and the people they associate with. Reasons for crime lay within the community: three umbrella explanations: (1) community lost: crime exists because community is lost. (2) community is saved. It is the explanation for crime but it hasn"t disappeared. Communities favor criminality (3) community liberated/transformed: liberated from geographical constraints. Community has transformed, people no longer looking for spiritual connection by knowing their neighbors: accept that community is something that is valuable. Intervention: conscious, planned, concerted action alleviate, eliminate social problems.
