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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"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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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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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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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 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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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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The Geography of Crime: Examining the Distribution of Break and Enters Across Regina Neighbourhoods Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
… variables outlined by Shaw and McKay’s (1942) social disorganization theory. This study found that break and enters clustered both spatially and temporally. Furthermore, the strongest predictors of break and enter distribution were found to be ethnic heterogeneity, unemployment, and residential …
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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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The risks of nonfatal violent victimizations across individual-and structural-level characteristics
… known Routine Activities/The Lifestyle Model and Social Disorganization Theory, each provided explanations how and why crime and victimization are linked to individual and environmental factors; however, it is unclear whether each set of characteristics are a better rationalization for crime and …
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Sense of community, collective efficacy, and perceived police efficacy: Research from a social cognitive perspective
… the relationship between two aspects of social cohesion on perceived police efficacy: (1) Sense of community, which is related to individual belonging and attachment to a place, as well as and trust and influence among residents; and (2) Collective efficacy, which is defined as cohesion …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… defender representation. Through the process of theory construction, the research uses critical race theory and social disorganization theory to show the relationship between court appointed representation and wrongful convictions. A new theory is also established that is referred to as the …
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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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An Examination of Household Chaos and Neighborhood Collective Efficacy on Adolescents’ Legal Cynicism and Delinquency
… framework for this project draws from social disorganization theory and ecological systems theory. This study longitudinally explores household chaos and neighborhood collective efficacy at year nine and legal cynicism and delinquent behavior at year fifteen to examine this …
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Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings
<p>In the last 40 years, social scientists have provided important insights into the different characteristics of mass public shootings: their prevalence, types, patterns, and individual risk factors. However, we still lack a fundamental understanding of the processes that shape its incidence and …
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Preventing Community Violence: A Case Study of Metro Detroit and Interfaith Activism
… community violence prevention. By applying the social ecological model and social disorganization theory, this research considers how to prevent community violence through building social capital, collective efficacy, and community capacity. This inquiry also utilized the social determinants of …
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PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK FACTORS FOR CYCLICAL URBAN VIOLENCE
… not be analyzed as an isolated variable. The social disorganization theory posits that social, cultural, and structural environmental factors shape a person’s behavior; this theory would suggest that higher rates of violence in young black men can be attributed to environmental factors rather …
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Poverty, Inequality & Terrorism Relationship in Turkey
… determinant of crime than absolute poverty. Social disorganization theory, anomie strain theory and Marxist theory have been used to explain the phenomenon. Guided by the aforementioned theories and previous literature on crime, this study looks at the terrorism issue and explores whether a …
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Geographic Factors of Residential Burglaries - A Case Study in Nashville, Tennessee
… guide this study, with the most prominent being Social Disorganization Theory and Routine Activities Theory. Both of these theories focus on the relationships of place and crime. A number of spatial analysis methods are hence adopted to analyze residential burglary rates at block group level for …
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The Influence of Inequality and Noneconomic Institutions on Cross-National Terrorist Incidents
… factors. Whereas most terrorism studies use social disorganization theory or anomie theory as their theoretical bases, this study uses institutional anomie theory (IAT) to examine the influence of economic and noneconomic institutions on terrorist-incident counts in the 1970s, 1980s, and …
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