PSY202H1 Chapter 7: Chapter 7.docx
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Richard sennett (1990) has shown how the design of cities frequently gives material and symbolic expression to particular dimensions of social life. Ghettoization" - marked by high levels of economic deprivation, unemployment and social problems of many kinds, but most significantly, high offence and offender rates. Ghettos are subject to highly coercive and militarized forms of social control, which parenti (1999) interprets as a state of almost permanent lockdown". Argued that the toleration of even seemingly trivial and inconsequential disorderly behaviours in an area could instigate more crime. Wesley skohan (1990) process by which the occurrence of disorder in even some comparatively well ordered communities, can set off a chain of events that leads to them tipping" into high crime rates areas: 1. The presence of disorder undermines the mechanisms by which communities exercise control over local affairs: 2. The disorder provokes concerns about neighbourhood safety and perhaps even causes crime itself": 3.
