Neighborhood Crime Looking at a Essay

Total Length: 1791 words ( 6 double-spaced pages)

Total Sources: 7

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OUTLINE

Thesis: The "broken windows" theory is the best way to explain neighborhood crime, as it relates to social disorder and a lack of control in the neighborhood; when social disorder arises as a lack of connection between individuals and their neighborhood, crime always follows.

I. Crime isn't associated with individuals, but rather with neighborhoods

A.

Systematic theory of neighborhood control

B.

differences in neighborhood crime, victimization, and fear of crime can best be explained by variations in the abilities of neighborhoods to regulate and control the behavior of their residents

Victimization and a high level of fear of crime happens in any neighborhood where people are disconnected with one another

A.

Neighborhood plays a large part in raising children (i.e.
, it takes a village to raise a child)

B.

Ethnic diversity, positive organizations like the YMCA, adequate housing, and jobs to employ people are what make good neighborhoods

1. Lab relates neighborhood crime to a deterioration of the neighborhood

2. Bursik and Grasmick talked about lack of control and how it is related to crime in neighborhoods

II. Urban neighborhoods have more crime that rural neighborhoods

A.

Kelling states urban life is characterized by the presence of many strangers, and in such circumstances citizens need minimum levels of order

B.

Urbanization is one of the first social changes linked to crime in American history

1. Chicago School: criminals are all ordinary people of….....

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