Part B “Most Dangerous Cities” Qs: 1. What reasons does the article give for these high crime rates? LOOK FOR PATTERNS – you should find at LEAST 10
1. Social disorganization: Social institutions that are dysfunctional due to the bad economy.
2. Punishment: Prisons have an abnormal rising population.
3. Policing: With more crimes in the cities, more police officers (public and private) are necessary.
4. Opportunism: Being an informant for crimes for the police for rewards.
5. Economics: The poorer the city the more crime infested the city will become.
6. Demography: Locations that are label as a problem area are police more and leads to more arrest.
7. Long-term Social Dynamics: History of the prolonged pattern of crimes over the years making …show more content…
Retribution: Making the offenders suffer more than the crime itself by serving longer jail time.
14. Organized crime: Gangs and groups of violence that create these high rates of crime.
15. Social control: The vice grip society has of this area of what is required of these areas.
2. Using ‘Sociological imagination’ and thinking like a sociologist ANSWER:
(A) Explain how we make a critical error focusing on the individual and their act of violence and not on the bigger picture – what?
By retribution, it’s easier to out the blame on a social institution that society sees as a burden and the stereotypes of deviance that social institution portrays. By giving out harsher prison sentences. 1. What are we missing out when we do that?
When these people are accused. It gives a void in their families lives. Their children are left to either to their grandparents who might be too elderly and sick to properly take good care of them. Foster care which is a decent outlet for the children. The schools, but because of inadequate education budgets, there is no after school programs. Lack of community centers. No work in these areas. With of all these dire situations it leads to what their parents was in trouble for, as a circle of impoverishing
1. Social disorganization: Social institutions that are dysfunctional due to the bad economy.
2. Punishment: Prisons have an abnormal rising population.
3. Policing: With more crimes in the cities, more police officers (public and private) are necessary.
4. Opportunism: Being an informant for crimes for the police for rewards.
5. Economics: The poorer the city the more crime infested the city will become.
6. Demography: Locations that are label as a problem area are police more and leads to more arrest.
7. Long-term Social Dynamics: History of the prolonged pattern of crimes over the years making …show more content…
Retribution: Making the offenders suffer more than the crime itself by serving longer jail time.
14. Organized crime: Gangs and groups of violence that create these high rates of crime.
15. Social control: The vice grip society has of this area of what is required of these areas.
2. Using ‘Sociological imagination’ and thinking like a sociologist ANSWER:
(A) Explain how we make a critical error focusing on the individual and their act of violence and not on the bigger picture – what?
By retribution, it’s easier to out the blame on a social institution that society sees as a burden and the stereotypes of deviance that social institution portrays. By giving out harsher prison sentences. 1. What are we missing out when we do that?
When these people are accused. It gives a void in their families lives. Their children are left to either to their grandparents who might be too elderly and sick to properly take good care of them. Foster care which is a decent outlet for the children. The schools, but because of inadequate education budgets, there is no after school programs. Lack of community centers. No work in these areas. With of all these dire situations it leads to what their parents was in trouble for, as a circle of impoverishing