Explain how social disorganization theory ties delinquency rates to socioeconomic conditions. Would you agree or disagree with this concept? Explain
What will be an ideal response?
• Long-term, unremitting poverty undermines a community and its residents. Delinquency rates are sensitive to the destructive social forces operating in lower-class urban neighborhoods
• Residents develop a sense of hopelessness and mistrust of conventional society. Residents of such areas are frustrated by their inability to become part of the "American Dream.".
• Kids growing up in these disadvantaged areas are at risk for delinquency because they hear from adults that there is little hope of success in the conventional world.
• Poverty undermines the basic stabilizing forces of the community—family, school, peers, and neighbors— rendering them weakened, attenuated and ineffective.
• The ability of the community to control its inhabitants—to assert informal social control—is damaged and frayed.
• The community has become socially disorganized and its residents free to succumb to the lure of antisocial. Without social controls kids are free to join gangs, violate the law, and engage in uncivil and destructive behaviors.
• Neighborhood kids are constantly exposed to disruption, violence, and incivility factors that increase the likelihood that they themselves will become delinquency involved.
• Neighborhood disintegration and the corresponding erosion of social control are the primary causes of delinquent behavior. Community values, norms, and cohesiveness control behavior choices, not personal decision making and individual traits.
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What will be an ideal response?
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