SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND THEORIES OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS*

This article is a major revision of the annual meeting of the Cincinnati American Criminal Society of 1984. The authors are grateful for the very useful comments and criticisms of the three anonymous reviewers of Mitch Chamlin, Harold Grasmick, Janet Heitgerd, Charles Tittle, Kirk Williams, and the initial draft. This work was partially funded by the National Institute of Justice Research 84 - IJ - CX - 0071.

Robert J. Bursik, Junior He is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He and Harold Glamick are currently involved in a longitudinal study of the crime rate around Oklahoma City.

The theory of social collapse experienced a significant reduction in criminal investigation in the 1960s and 1970s. Bursik made a big contribution by emphasizing the most outstanding problems faced by societal collapse theory at the time and set a clear path to study community and crime. In this manuscript, Bursik and Grasmick describe the neighboring mechanisms related to crime and disorder in detail, expand the social collapse research, and develop a three-tier system model of regional regulation and a community-based network for crime prevention and key We discussed the importance of neighboring organizations in detail. .

The latest edition of social collapse theory states that strong social interactions can prevent crime and crime ("social collapse"). When neighbors are familiar with each other, adults are more willing to join and participate more when they pay attention to outsiders with bad behavior, in other words they protect each other and their neighbors ("Social collapse"). According to the theory of social collapse, characteristics of communities such as poverty and ethnic diversity interfere with the joint efforts of neighboring Member States, which leads to an increase in the crime rate ("social collapse").

In sociology, the theory of social collapse is a theory developed by the Chicago school in relation to ecological theory. This theory directly links the crime rate with neighboring ecological features; the core principle of social collapse theory is important. In other words, the place of residence is an important factor that affects the possibility of that person participating in illegal conduct. The theory suggests that the residence is as important or important as the person's personal characteristics (eg age, gender, or ethnicity) in the subsequent determinants of human misconduct. For example, since the theory asserts that young people in poor communities are involved in subcultures that approve crime, these young people are acquiring criminal acts in this social and cultural context .