SOSC 3654 Lecture Notes - Informal Social Control, Moss Park, Semi-Structured Interview

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3654
• Professor: Amanda Glasbeek

Document Summary

Focus on identifying who is a part of the community and who is not (stranger) Moving van- viable strategy of burglar that makes crime look normal. Community liason groups - police sit around with members or leaders and engage in discussion. Often these turn to police just demanded info from community. In canada, all offenders that are released must serve some part of sentence in community. Halfway houses common - bridge prison life with normal life. The unintented consequences of revitilization on community and crime in regent park. Theoretical assumptions of the social mix model and its implications for crime and violence. Physical space and geographies are attached to meanings. External representations of the neighbourhood - people hold tendencies about public housing. Stigmatized due to negative meanings attached to regent park. Externally imposed by people not a part of the neighbourhood. Largely been portrayed as a deviant, outcast and branded space. Have of single mothers, magnet for drug problems.