ADJ-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Entropic Force, Social Disorganization Theory, Vise
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Res. instability, racial/ethnic heterogeneity, poverty are not social disorganization. Poverty is related to crime through some intermediate thing, aka, soc. It is indirect poverty stems from instability, racial/ethnic heterogeneity, poverty etc . *** social disorganization poverty strain theory. Functioning abnormally, so fix it straighten community and crime will go down. The people will get access to these jobs, tae their earnings and get out and accelerates dis. B/c they are taking themselves out of the area and contributing to it even more. Over time, this ebbed and flowed, when you put money and time in, crime will go in and trappings increase, vise versa. So required constant attention and investment to hold back these entropic forces. Community intervention/building not self- sustaining august 2014. Shooting of michael brown by white police officer in ferguson. Issues between police and community and fact that police are using that community as a source of revenue and acting as a taxation" system.
