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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Social Disorganization"”.
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Global Social Disorganization: Applying Social Disorganization Theory to the Study of Terrorist Organizations
… theoretical framework for understanding the social context in which terrorist organizations emerge and operate stifles the systematic study of terrorism and inhibits the ability of the social sciences to influence international policy. To address this limitation, the present study begins by …
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Race, Social Disorganization and Delinquency
… race and delinquency was examined looking at social disorganization factors. It was hypothesized that there would be racial and ethnic differences in delinquency and that these differences would be accounted for by social disorganization factors, specifically collective efficacy and economic …
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Social Disorganization In University Residence Halls
Social disorganization theory researchers have paid little attention to college and university campuses. To build on this limited research the current study attempted to analyze the incident rates on The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus to ascertain if social disorganization theory …
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Social disorganization theory and crime rates on California community college campuses
… of this study was to explore the impact of social structure and community organization factors on campus crime on California community college campuses. The study utilized social disorganization theory to examine those relationships by aggregating data from the 113 campuses that are required …
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Institutionalizing Juveniles: An Analysis By Social Disorganization Controlling For Arrest Rates
… data by geographic location, measures of social disorganization, gender and race for the years 1993, 1994, and 1995 for each county and independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Regression analysis indicated that a rural/urban difference does not exist for all incarceration …
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American Indian Homicide; A County Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory Revisted
… Homicide: A County-Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory" has been referred to as a highly influential piece of literature on American Indian homicide. The study looked at American Indian homicide victimization incidents by county between 1986 and 1992 in the continental …
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A Secondary Analysis of Social Disorganization Theory in Urban Neighborhoods of Mexico City
… pundit inefficiencies in the administration of social controls. This study evaluates 1,965 surveys of perception and victimization in Mexico City during 2008 to determine demographic attributes that are relative to social disorganization theory as revised by Sampson and Grove’s 1989 article. …
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Social Disorganization, Crime, and Displacement: An Evaluation of HOPE VI in Lexington, Kentucky
… HOPE VI residents could predict higher levels of social disorganization. It was hypothesized that areas where HOPE VI residents chose to move would be significantly more likely to be disadvantaged in terms of crime, family structure, housing, and affluence. Poisson-based regression models …
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War on Drugs: Examining the Effects on Social Disorganization and Crime in Cities
… on the environment and its effects on residents. Social disorganization, characterized by weakened institutions led researchers to analyze and predict patterns of crime in urban areas. Researchers argue that social disorganization theory arguments developed from this approach, but lost appeal …
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Geographical Analysis of Offender Vulnerability: Modeling Coastal Hazards and Social Disorganization in Southern Mississippi
… criminogenic neighborhoods. Given such severe social and financial limitations, offenders have little capacity to prepare for or recover from disasters.</p> <p>The primary objective of this project was to model offender residential patterns and examine the spatial relationship to physically …
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An Analysis of the Effects of the Social Disorganization Theory on Juveniles in Georgia
<p>Social disorganization is represented by an inability of community members to attain mutual goals or to resolve commonly experienced problems (Bursik, 1988). Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay were the first sociologists to denote this occurrence in Chicago. Shaw and McKay are examined as reputable …
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Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
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Social Disorganization and the Public Level of Crime Control: A Spatial Analysis of Ecological Predictors of Homicide Rates in Bogota, Colombia
<p>Research in the social disorganization tradition has found community disadvantage to be one of the strongest and most consistent macro-level predictors of homicides in urban areas in the United States (Pratt & Cullen 2005). This dissertation empirically tests the applicability of ecological …
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Assessing the Effects of Social Disorganization on Crime in Texas Border Counties: A Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis from 1990 to 2007
Guided by social disorganization theory, this study examines the relationship between structural factors and juvenile property crime in the 43 counties that form the Texas border region over an 18 year period. Measures are included for per capita income, unemployment, ethnic heterogeneity, …
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Examining Spatiotemporal Change in Neighborhood Crime Using Social Disorganization as a Theoretical Framework: A 10-Year Analysis of Homicide in the City of Richmond, VA
… of neighborhood crime distributions using social disorganization as a theoretical framework in the City of Richmond, VA. Neighborhood crime, in this study, might be considered as any type of index crime aggregated to neighborhood level. For the purpose of the present study, however, …
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A Social Control Based Analysis of the Effect of Community Context upon Self Reported Delinquency Rates.
<p>Social disorganization and social control are two seemingly competing theories attempting to explain crime and delinquency. In this study, social control and social disorganization are measured in a sample of college students via self-report surveys using questions derived from Hirschi's social …
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Detroit Crime Trends: Examining Large Business Labor Practices
… company employment, relative to conditions of social disorganization, and changes in the crime rate. It builds upon Blau and Blau’s (1982) work on the structural contributors to social disorganization, namely unemployment. Unlike previous studies examined, this study will use Social …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND OTHER EXOGENOUS FACTORS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION ON FEMALE PROPERTY CRIME OFFENDING ACROSS US CITIES: A RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DISAGGREGATED ANALYSIS
… disadvantage, gender inequality, and other social disadvantage indicators on female non-violent and violent property crime offending. This dissertation found that economic marginality, gender inequality, and exogenous factors of social disorganization do explain some of the variation in …
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The effect of social service agencies on crime rates in Kansas City, Missouri
This thesis examines whether social service agencies mediate the effects of social disorganization and subculture on crime in Kansas City, Missouri. Variables from social disorganization and subculture theory are combined in order to spatially and statistically examine the variation in the crime …
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