Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The Chicago school’s unique contribution to gang theorizing was its emphasis on the physical locations of gangs.
2. There are debates as to how many gangs Thrasher (1927, 2000) examined in his landmark study.
3. Thrasher’s (1927) concept of “contextualization” is synonymous with his concept of a “situation complex.”
4. Bursik and Grasmick (1993) first specified that poverty, population heterogeneity, and residential mobility are the mechanisms that lead to crime and delinquency in social disorganization theory.
5. Papachristos and Kirk (2006) suggested that social disorganization theory predicted gang but not non-gang homicides because the neighborhoods where gangs flourished were probably different from the places where non-gang violence developed.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
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