CRIM 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Informal Social Control, Social Capital, Social Disorganization Theory

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Experiments are the only way to prove 100% Pager sends her grad students to apply for low level jobs. Both race and criminal history played a major effect and their intersection had a large effect: if criminal history had an effect, then they were 1/2 or 1/3 as likely to get a criminal record. Widespread availability of criminal background checks shouldn"t be used and should be suppressed. Economic conditions: strain on remaining families, returning prisoners also create burden, communities with large numbers of returning prisoners have strain compounded. Social conditions: coercive mobility- state is creating instability. Date: 4/12/16: social networks and social capital, informal social control and collective ef cacy. 2 parts of concentrated incarcerations: removal (prison admissions) and return (releases) Return of ex-prisoners to neighborhoods: unambiguous (and unsurprising) increase in crime. Prison admissions: removal of the bad apples , locking up none and very few decreases crime, but as #s grow; crime stats go up (fast)

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