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| Refers to the actual or perceived ability of the residents of a neighborhood to maintain informal social control over the criminal or deviant behavior of other residents. |
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| What are the factors of Concentrated Disadvantage? |
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1. % of families below poverty level
2. % of female headed households
3. % of families on welfare
4. % black
5. % unemployed
6. % under 18 |
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| Looks at a city with the graph of a target depicting a series of concentric zones. each zone represents a certain class of people. each zone is used to understand crime in a city. |
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| Refers to the investment in the community, and looks at things like club and organization membership, volunteer activities, political activities, and the general community engagement. |
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| Refers to the breakdown in traditional social control and organization in the society, community, neighborhood, or family so that deviant and criminal activity result. Often applied to urban crime. |
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| Refers to the macro-level theories that account for differences in crime rates across communities by looking at variations in structural characteristics and conditions of each community |
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| A theory that views a city as analogous to the natural ecological community of plants and animals. |
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| explains the making a criminal and the lure of criminal behaviour. |
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