CRJU 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Juvenile Court, Panel Data, Homicide

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Des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e the chara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s of a (cid:862)high cri(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)orhood. Sdt is a macro level theory of crime and focuses on places and not people. High rates of poverty, in transition, residents live there because they have to, hard time recognizing residents from outsiders, little motivation to make neighborhood a better place. Transitional zone (deteriorated housing, factories, abandoned buildings) *recent immigrant groups. 4 conclusions: crime highest in transitional zone and decreases outward, remarkable stability in high delinquency areas over time, community characteristics related to delinquency rates, neighborhoods suffer from high rates of other social problems. We need to examine dangerous places rather than dangerous people. The inability of a community structure to realize the common values of its residents and to maintain effective social controls (allows social ills to thrive (juvenile, delinquency, suicide, mental illness, homicide)) Massive social changes: (breakdown of social bonds and social control: urbanization, migration. Residential mobility: family disruption (newly added, urbanization.

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