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    Theories Of Crime

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    high rates of unemployment. However, they cannot be used to explain overarching mechanisms of extremely high rates of American urban crime today. Social structures as well as cultural conditions play strong explanatory roles in describing the causes of crime in American cities. Some prominent social structural theories include social disorganization theory, strain theory, and cultural deviance

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    (IPV) is an irrefutable social problem that affects millions of Americans, victims, families, and communities. IPV is a known social problem, investigations have attempted to answer questions regarding the extent, prevalence, and the contributing social and psychological factors that influence this type of behavior. Social disorganization is the theory that will coincide with IPV. There are a few social and demographic characteristics for intimate partner violence. Lack of social contact and interaction

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    criminal behavioral by children who are left unsupervised. This type of data will give us a better perspective of the effect of how young social disorganization and inequality can begin, and have a lasting effect of the youth in these communities. Once we are able to answer these questions with reasonable solutions, then we can reduce the fraying of their social structures and make gradual improvement to their high crime, and violent rates. Literature Review and

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    Introduction There has been serval research studies that are dedicated to describing the social disorganization theory and racial inequality, that are so often found in certain communities, but although there are serval studies done there seems to be very little data to support racial inequality. The ethnic and racial minorities are always overrepresented when we look at violent crimes, arrests, and other criminal acts or behavior within the lower class communities or neighborhoods, because of the

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    experiencing major crime in their neighborhood by juvenile delinquency and could not pinpoint the reason behind it. Criminology theorists went on a mission to find why crime was popular in the neighborhoods of Chicago. They created a theory called social disorganization theory which is also known as the theory of the Chicago school. Many different theorists had found their own concepts, testing, propositions, and findings to figure out the relationship between crime and neighborhoods. Some could not figure

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    Social Disorganization Social disorganization theory explains the ecological difference in levels of crime, simply based on cultural and structural factors that influence the social order in a given community. Social disorganization is triggered by poverty, social stability, ethnic heterogeneity, and a few key elements. Although Clifford Shaw and Henry D. McKay (1942), were known for social disorganization theory, in 1947 Edwin Sutherland introduced the notion of a ecological differences in crime

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    (2) After individual and family factors are accounted for, do ethnicity and/or residence in underclass neighborhoods add to the explanation of delinquency? In order to answer the questions that were posed, a set of measures were used. In their study Peeples and Loeber considered factors such as Age, percentage poor/welfare, Percentage single parent, hyperactivity, and supervision as independent variables. On the other hand,

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    this sense, theories can be used to explain crime phenomena and answer the questions involved. Through theory, important aspects surrounding a crime can be discovered. Therefore, understanding the patterns and motivations of crimes can be helpful towards preventing their occurrence. This paper focuses on robbery as a type of crime. The two theories that are applied to robbery, in this case, are strain theory and social disorganization theory. Robbery usually involves unlawful taking of property from

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    General Strain Theory

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    50% of those rates? Is there a theory out there than can explain this occurrence in the criminal justice system? The intent of this paper is to explain why this disparity occurs using the General Strain Theory. I also intend to explain why Social Disorganization fails in explaining the racial gap in offending. Both of these theories encounter the issue of failing to fully explain why certain racial or ethnic groups are incarcerated more than other, however, due to empirical evidence it’s clear to

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    Research Question Is there a spatial relationship between the locations of known gang members and drug violations? Analysis It is expected, based on social disorganization theory, that census tracts with high concentrations of gang members will also be high in disorganization. As seen in figure 1 this will be established by creating a contour line hot spot of gang member locations and drug violations overlaid on a map showing social disorganization. Social disorganization will be based on low

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