CC290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Disorganization Theory, Social Forces, Concentrated Poverty
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Chapter eight: a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality. Robert j. sampson and william julius wilson: sampson and wilson suggest that ignoring the prevailing culture in urban areas results in an incomplete understanding of why crime takes place. They observe that a peculiar reality of american society is the extreme racial segregation of. African americans residing in many major cities: in disadvantaged urban communities, youths live in segregated housing, attend schools in which virtually every student is a minority, and rarely travel outside the boundaries of their immediate neighbourhood. They are more likely to witness violent acts, to be taught to be violent by exhortation, and to have role models who do not adequately control their own violent impulses or restrain their own anger. Rather, it suggests that reducing structural inequality would not only decrease the frequency of these practices; it would also make their transmission by precept less ef cient.
