Exam 9: Social Structure Theories of Crime II

Shaw and McKay's social disorganization model does not attempt to explain why some youths in the best neighborhoods choose to commit crime.

All of the following are considered part of the six (6)focal concerns proposed by Miller EXCEPT:

The term code of the streets was developed by Anderson.

What are the six focal concerns in Miller's theory?

The breakdown in the conditions of a neighborhood leads to social disorganization,which in turn leads to delinquents learning criminal activities from whom?

Why was Chicago chosen as the area for the development of these theories? What was going on in this city in the mid- to late-1800s? Who ran the town,and what did this lead to?

What were Ferracuti and Wolfgang's primary conclusions from their research? What did they base their primary conclusions on? What does their cultural/subcultural theory assume?

______ claimed that much of human behavior,especially the way cities grow,follows the basic principles of ecology that had been documented and applied to wildlife for many years at that point.

By the late 1800s,______ was largely made up of citizens who did not speak a common language and did not share one another's cultural values.

According to cultural theories of crime in the United States,what large group blatantly denies the middle-class norms of society?

The Chicago School of criminology can be generalized to other cities.

Shaw and McKay's model demonstrated that the prevalence and frequency of various social ills tend to overlap with higher delinquency rates.

Business or industrial development in suburban or rural areas can devastate the informal controls of all of the following EXCEPT:

Geographers and urban planners have long acknowledged the detriment caused to traditionally stable residential areas when businesses move in.

Ferracuti and Wolfgang's primary conclusion was that violence is a culturally learned adaptation to deal with negative life circumstances and that learning such norms occurs in an environment that emphasizes violence over other options.

According to Shaw and McKay,the neighborhoods that have the highest rates of crime typically have all of the following common problems EXCEPT:

The code of the streets theory by Anderson focused on African Americans and claims that due to deprived conditions in the inner cities,black Americans feel a sense of hopelessness,isolation,and despair.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.What three zones did Burgess state were of less importance in terms of distinction?

To what does the term code of the streets refer?

______ proposed a framework that began with the assumption that certain neighborhoods in all cities have more crime than other parts of the city.