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social disorganization: a standalone construct

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socialdisorganization1 CONSTRUCTSocial disorganizationSHAW & McKAY · 1942

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Criminology

the theory that crime concentrates in neighbourhoods whose informal social control is weakened by poverty, turnover and heterogeneity.

Social disorganization theory holds that crime concentrates in neighbourhoods whose capacity for informal social control is weakened by conditions like poverty, residential turnover, and population heterogeneity, rather than by the traits of the individuals living there. Shaw and McKay's Juvenile delinquency and urban areas mapped stable high-delinquency zones across Chicago and tied them to community structure, and Sampson and Groves's 1989 Community structure and crime: Testing social-disorganization theory gave the idea a direct empirical test through measures of local networks and supervision. The construct locates the cause of crime in a community's inability to realize shared values and regulate behaviour.[1][2]

Unit
A neighbourhood's capacity to maintain informal social control over behaviour
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Indexed by poverty, residential mobility, and heterogeneity, and by mediating measures of local ties and supervision

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References

  1. Shaw, C. R., & McKay, H. D. (1969). Juvenile delinquency and urban areas (Rev. ed.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1942) ISBN 9780226751252
  2. Sampson, R. J., & Groves, W. B. (1989). Community structure and crime: Testing social-disorganization theory. American Journal of Sociology, 94(4), 774–802. https://doi.org/10.1086/229068

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