CRM 3308 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
30 Jul 2015
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Kinds of place explanations: deviant/non-deviant association, high levels of moral cynicism. Acting better than what we actually are: crowding. Poverty: dense, mixed-use, confronted by the temptations and seductions to vice . Mixed-use: increases familiarity, access to places offering deviant opportunities. Transience: weakens familial attachments, weakens voluntary organizations, reduces levels of community surveillance. Neighbourhoods reflect and confer status: soft spot for crime , reduction in stakes in conformity , role models flee/resist moving in, overpopulated with demoralized offenders and victims, more lenient law enforcement, increased visibility of crime and deviance. * these 5 characteristics provide the opportunity for a neighbourhood to be morally cynical and an opportunity to deviate. * the net result to those 5 characteristics is that deviance will increase. Class matters: serious offences disproportionately perpetrated by virtual under class . Diversity of use and users: need interaction between others who live there and work there. * crime will flourish when people do not interact together.
