SOCIOL 147A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Disorganization Theory, Informal Social Control, White-Collar Crime
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Gender and crime (men are more likely to commit crimes and more likely to commit more severe crimes) 2011 arrests by gender (one point in time for this graph) Ten-yr arrest trends by sex, (2002-11) male: total v under 18 female: total v under 18 can do between group and within group analysis. Sampson and wilson ecological fallacy concentration effects social disorganization cultural disorganization and isolation macrosocial forces vs. community-level factors. Pettit and western life course and imprisonment incarceration risk v. cumulative. Social sanctions systems sources of sanctions physical moral religious political relevant actors individual family, friends, neighbors (informal social control) How to deal with fear of crime: avoid particular neighborhoods. The tensions between privately experienced and publicly perceived meanings of gunshot injuries underscore the many dif culties in the lives of gunshot victims (255) Social disorganization theory depicts social change,, social con ict as root causes off crime.
