CRJU 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Disorganization Theory, Anomie, Homicide
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Macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity, & violent crime. Racial context of violent crime being labeled as a racist . Denial that racial differences are real because of police bias and invalid crime statistics. Appropriate study resources/tools not available to examine (past) Explaining inequality in violence across racial and ethnic groups: Earlier explanations innate inferiority of nonwhites. Traditional cultural perspectives (wolfgang & ferracuti, 1967) culture of. Main basis/idea: crime and violence stem from inequality in socioeconomic conditions such as poverty. Early accounts: merton"s anomie (1938) and shaw & mckay"s social disorganization (1942) Wilson (1987) race differences in crime and other urban social problems are rooted in the different community circumstances of whites and blacks. **extreme concentration of disadvantage that emerged in the 1970s and. 1980s in some black but few white inner-city neighborhoods. Sampson (1987) high levels of economic disadvantage in black neighborhoods have important consequences for crime. Undermines the ability of communities to control crime.
