Discuss The Effects Of Social Disorganization Of Crime

The current study attempted to investigate if community characteristics, such as socioeconomic disadvantage, family disruption, residential instability, and young population structure were statistically significant predictors of violent offending in the city of Brantford. Community environmental stressors have been found to be the risk factors for violent offending in several studies as indicated in the previous chapters. Following the theoretical landscape in Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory, the present study employed secondary data provided by the Brantford Police Service and Statistics Canada to investigate the correlation between neighborhood disadvantage and the occurrence of violent crime through a testing of five hypotheses. The bivariate results showed evidence that socioeconomic disadvantage, family disruption and young population structure were positively related to the proliferation of violent crime. Though these findings were not exactly coincided with all the central constructs in Shaw and McKay’s research (1942), the results …show more content…
Discussion
Based on the research findings, traditional theoretical predictors of violent crime in large cities, such as residential instability, might not be entirely applicable in predicting violent offending at the lower units of analysis. The results from bivariate analysis showed that even though positive relationship between young population structure and violent offending was statistically observed, young population structure did not contribute to the increase in violent crime in the regression analysis. That said, the findings of this study lend support for the pivotal role of socioeconomic factor in evaluating violent crime occurrence at the census tract level. Previous Canadian research on neighborhood violent crime have frequently demonstrated that socioeconomic disadvantage is a strong antecedent of violent crime