What is social disorganization? How does it develop?

What will be an ideal response?


Social disorganization is the result of having a high transient population, a high level of poverty, and great residential heterogeneity. Social disorganization is a community's inability to come together and develop collective efficacy. Because these communities lack the social controls necessary to manage behavior, gangs and youths are free to conduct their illegal activities and recruitments in those neighborhoods.

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The American criminal trial process, in which two opposing sides argue against one another, is known as a/an _____ process.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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An important strategy in ______________ is to impose on the supervision effort a structure of established approaches that will likely succeed, rather than leaving the supervision style to the officer's discretion.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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In ___________, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a judge or jury must take into account specific aggravating and mitigating factors before deciding which convicted murderers should be sentenced to death

A) Furman v. Georgia (1972 ) B) Gregg v. Georgia (1976 ) C) McCleskey v. Kemp (1987 ) D) Payne v. Tennessee (1991 ) E) Ford v. Wainwright (1986 )

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.___________ offenders are led to offending mainly by structural disadvantages and tend to mature out of crime

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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