ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Radical Change, Siege Mentality, Broken Windows Theory
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Broken window theory alienation, fear of crime. Cross-cultural research in canada, scandinavia, and great britain supports theory. Lack of local organizations and resources to maintain control. Willingness to intervene, maintain social control through interpersonal and public action. Charitable donations, volunteerism: strain theory, robert merton s theory of anomie. Conflict or disparity between the culturally specified goals and the culturally available means to achieve the goals. Lower-class experiences strain between goals and means - likely to choose illegitimate means. Withdraw mentally or physically through drugs, transience. Call for alternative life style, radical change in society revolutionaries, hippies, etc. Relative deprivation theory judith and peter blau (1982) Sense of injustice is based on comparison. Rich and poor live in close proximity. Explains middle- and upper-class deviance times of affluence. Crime is result of negative affective states (emotions) caused by failure to achieve goals.
