Social process theories do not approach crime. Their most important strength is their explanatory power cuts across social classes and economic strata. These theories are consistent with a pattern of crime and delinquency weighted toward members of the lower-class. The chapter discusses three forms ...
SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND THEORIES OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTSdoi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00854.xAfter a period of decline in the... ROBERT,J.,BURSIK,... - 《Criminology》 被引量: 1323发表: 1988年 Institutional Strength, Social Control and Neighborhood Crime Rates Goog...
Chris has a master's degree in history and teaches at the University of Northern Colorado. Cite this lesson There are two major theories that help us to understand why crime came to be and also why it continues to happen: labeling theory and social-conflict theory. Explore each theory an...
Social disapproval is an important characteristic that links apparently diverse behaviors, including religious and sexual deviance, organized crime, youth gangs, drug use, and serial murder. The authors argue that socially disapproved conduct is potentially explicable by similar theories regardless of the...
Zinn,O Jens - 《Social Theories of Risk & Uncertainty An Introduction》 被引量: 81发表: 2008年 Moral Education for Americans Dramatic increases in crime rates, greater numbers of illegitimate births, declining concern for social good, and widespread immoral acts by public figures... RD Heslep ...
In this book, the authors critically review the main findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime, highlighting groups who are most fearful of crime and exploring the theories used to account for that fear. Using this research, the authors move on to propose a new model ...
Chapters explore the application of social psychology and social cognitive theories to decision making in the context of punishments by judges and the punitiveness of laymen. The book also highlights the different legal systems in the UK, US and Europe,discussing how attitudes to punishment can ...
Ecological theories linking community characteristics to the level of crime have rarely been tested outside the context of the United States and Western Europe. In this study we examine the effects of social cohesion and neighborhood disorder on crime using data from a survey of neighborhoods in Br...
crime patterns with a focus on social capital. We use a triangulation of three core theories of crime including social disorganization, anomie/strain, and rational choice theories to develop a formal theory and an empirical framework. The role of four unique measures of social capital is explored...
'coloured' crime, of the social conditions of 'coloured' people in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and social order were firmly linked in the 1940s to ideas within State policy of 'problem families', of the relationship between poverty and crime, and later of heriditarian theories of ...