SOC 306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Disorganization Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Domestic Violence
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Immigrants and poor people: have no want to stay and leave as soon as they have money. Little tie to it so no one wants to make it better: characteristics that influence, poverty, pop turnover, racial make up, critiques. Some communities work together to solve goals: neighborhood characterisitics, density, poverty, mixed land use, transcend, dilapidation, push for social disorg theory. Sparse friendship networks: unsupervised teen peer group, explain relat btw poverty, turnover, urbanization, and family disruption. If neighborhoods had these characteristics then there was more victimization. Showed composite ses disadvantage and pop turnover: hayes-smith and whaley. Low ses, resident instability, family disrupt: meth use was hurt. Social cohesion among neighbors combined with willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good. Social cohesion and trust is necessary: mediator btw deviance and social disorg. Study looked at: the two groups of measures were highly correlated.