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    I chose the social disorganization theory because I feel that it best explains crime and people within a certain community. While reading about this theory from the textbook it just made the most sense to me. It was a well explained theory that went into depth about why certain communities had high rates of crime and not just focus on certain individuals. The social disorganization theory focuses on crime and criminal activity that derive from a certain neighborhood. It focuses on the community

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    speaker who travels and sponsor numerous charities and organizations with the homeless and violence against women. There are a few theories that can relate to Gardner’s life experience including the social disorganization theory and strain theory. Social disorganization is when a person’s physical and social environments are in charge of the behavioral choices that an individual makes,

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    Social Disorganization Nicole Hofmann Criminological Theory – University of Tampa   Abstract Social Disorganization theory has its roots in urban ecology and Burgess’s concentric model. As part of the positivist paradigm of criminology, it poses a scientific examination of the connection of social disorganization and crime mediated by structural factors. The macro-level research concludes that a weakening of social bonds between an individual and institutions of socialization will lead to delinquency

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    Social Disorganization; what is it? How does it affect me and the community that I live in? For many years’ residents in their particular community fought crime the best way they knew how. Some call the police, some protected their clan and yet others simply watch it happen, praying that they are not the next victim. So how do people stop crime when the police are nowhere around? Who can the residents turn to? The answer is simple; they turn to their neighbors. DISCUSSION: Shaw and McKay view for

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    extensive examination of numerous neighbourhoods within Chicago. Social disorganization theory was one of the many theories that developed from this ecological thinking. It sought to identify the social problems that arose from rapid urbanization and industrialization. This paper will detail the elements associated with social disorganization theory, as well as supportive evidence of its validity and generalizability. Social disorganization theory

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    were three components of the community stressed by Shaw and McKay’s disorganization theory, which were believed to have rather influential correlation of neighborhood delinquency rates. Kornhauser expressed the approval of the unchallenged influence of economic statues, however, criticized the argument that area rates of mobility and heterogeneity were related to delinquency. Kornhauser believed that by controlling for individual social-economic statues, the relation of area rates of economic statues

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    Examining Social Structure Theory Heather Huyser CJS 231 December 22, 2014 Christopher Hammond Examining Social Structure Theory For the purpose of this paper in examining theories, I have chosen to view the Tent City, AZ video. “Located in the desert near downtown Phoenix, Tent City houses 2,000 inmates in canvas tents” (Films Media Group, 2007). Conditions are difficult for the inmates, and since there are no prison bars, maintaining control over the inmates is a constant concern for the guards

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    Shaw and McKay theorized that juvenile delinquency could be credited to the harsh disorganization of the inner-city. For instance, they were able to draw from the works of Burgess and Parks that poverty, soring population rate as well as a disruption in social institutions contributed to the rise of juvenile delinquency. Shaw and McKay began interviewing wayward adolescents, most notably Sidney Blotzman who was a 16 year

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    mothers, I will argue that Medea is not a bad mother. I will do this by proving that: Medea defies the social conventions of motherhood in three ways; she kills her children in order to protect them; and, that she rebels against her husband’s control and male domination by depriving him of his “immortality” by killing his sons and ending his bloodline. There are three ways in which Medea defies the social conventions of motherhood. Firstly, she does this by not being a stay-at-home mother. Secondly, she

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    will be for a prospective student, I gathered that the experience will be like being a part of a community inside and outside of the classroom and this is achieved through academic and living encounters. As Wataugans we spend time in academic and social environments together, our spirit of learning is shown through the times we spend together academically and socially. And by socially I mean we have lunch together, and when there are opportunities we volunteer together and take recreational trips

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