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Whalen, Travis F. "Global Social Disorganization: Applying Social Disorganization Theory to the Study of Terrorist Organizations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42354.

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The lack of a consistent theoretical framework for understanding the social context in which terrorist organizations emerge and operate stifles the systematic study of terrorism and inhibits the ability of the social sciences to influence international policy. To address this limitation, the present study begins by defining terrorism, and the related phenomena of terror, terrorist, and terrorist organization. As classification is necessary for any scientific investigation, typologies of terrorism currently found in the academic literature are reviewed next. Finally, a criminological framewo

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Bazyler, Alina. "Race, Social Disorganization and Delinquency." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2283.

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The overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in crime has been an issue of debate. Some evidence, however, has shown that racial differences in offending are largely accounted for by economic disadvantage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 4,290), the relationship between race and delinquency was examined looking at social disorganization factors. It was hypothesized that there would be racial and ethnic differences in delinquency and that these differences would be accounted for by social disorganization factors, specifically collective effica

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Dougherty, Robyn G. Ms. "Social Disorganization, Extra-Curricular Activities, and Delinquency." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2476.

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Neighborhood social disorganization has been found to be related to crime and deviance. In explaining this relationship, most have focused on specific factors of informal social control and collective efficacy. Using data from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (n = 12,800), the relationship between social disorganization and delinquent outcomes was examined by looking at extra-curricular activities as intervening mechanisms with logistic regression in SPSS. While the effect of social disorganization on delinquency remained significant, results indicated some evidence of mediatio

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Crum, Billy. "Social disorganization theory and crime in West Virginia." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=374.

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Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. "Registered Sex Offenders: Social Disorganization and Lived Experiences." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/316772.

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Using data from the Arizona public sex offender registry (SOR) and interview data from 30 registered sex offenders (RSOs), two probation officers, and one homeless shelter worker, this study addresses RSO housing experiences by placing RSOs at the center of the analysis. First, using a framework of social disorganization, I find RSOs are moderately segregated according to the index of dissimilarity, and tend to reside in areas characterized by lower than average median income and higher than average housing vacancies. The presence of RSOs is another indicator of social disorganization for thes

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Hoskin, Sara. "Foreclosures and Crime: Testing Social Disorganization Theory in the Suburbs." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5308.

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Foreclosures have increased in the US since the 1970's. The increase in foreclosures has caused concern among some researchers on their affect on crime. Social disorganization theory measures the effect various structural characteristics, such as poverty, residential instability/mobility, racial/ethnic heterogeneity, and family disruption have on crime. This study, though, is concerned with residential instability/mobility, or the presence of foreclosed houses in neighborhoods. Although most studies using this theory look at low-income neighborhoods, the following research looks at middle-

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Li, Yuh-Yuh. "Social Structure, Social Control, and Crimein in Rural Communities: A Test of Social Disorganization Theory." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1237993548.

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Li, Yuh-Yuh. "Social structure, social control, and crime in rural communities a test of social disorganization theory /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1237993548.

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Ravalin, Tamara M. "Social disorganization theory and crime rates on California community college campuses." Scholarly Commons, 2014. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/68.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of social structure and community organization factors on campus crime on California community college campuses. The study utilized social disorganization theory to examine those relationships by aggregating data from the 113 campuses that are required to submit data on an annual basis to state and federal agencies. Crime data from the 2011 Clery report was separated into personal crimes and property crimes as reported by the California community college campuses. Correlation analysis was used for the non-categorical social structure and comm

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Hartman, Jeffrey R. "Institutionalizing Juveniles: An Analysis By Social Disorganization Controlling For Arrest Rates." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10035.

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Ecological studies of crime explore how crime and delinquency are distributed within a geographical area. The most famous of these studies was done by Shaw and McKay (1942). The present study analyzes juvenile incarceration data by geographic location, measures of social disorganization, gender and race for the years 1993, 1994, and 1995 for each county and independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Regression analysis indicated that a rural/urban difference does not exist for all incarceration categories used in the study. When the control measure of arrest rate was added to the regres

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Roussell, Aaron. "Wyoming ice social disorganization and methamphetamine use in a rural state /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1317343901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Irmak, Fatih. "Can Social Disorganization and Social Capital Factors Help Explain the Incidences of Property Crimes in Turkey?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103333/.

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Organized crime and terrorism taking place in the Turkish provinces get more attention in the public agenda than other type of crimes. Although property crimes receive less attention, they pose a serious threat to public order and the social welfare of Turkish society. Academic researchers have also paid little attention to the analysis of property crimes at the macro level in Turkey. For these reasons, this study focused on the analysis of property crimes for three years period, 2005, 2006 and 2007 in Turkey, using a conceptual model of social disorganization. Provincial level data from Turki

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Ciobanu, Dana Maria. "Social Disorganization Theory: The Role of Diversity in New Jersey's Hate Crimes." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2718.

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The reported number of hate crimes in New Jersey continues to remain high despite the enforcement of laws against perpetrators. The purpose of this correlational panel study was to test Shaw & McKay's theory of social disorganization by examining the relationship between demographic diversity and hate crime rates. This study focused on analyzing the relationship between the level of diversity, residential mobility, unemployment, family disruption, proximity to urban areas, and population density in all 21 New Jersey counties and hate crime rates. The existing data of Federal Bureau of Investig

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Dillon, Amber D. "The influence of social disorganization on length of jury service : a spatial analysis /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559853381&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Westmoreland, Daniel Kirk. "Determinants of Social Disorganization as Predictors of Illicit Drug Use During Recessionary Years." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1633.

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Research suggests evidence of an association between sociodemographic determinants and illicit drug use. However, these data do not take into consideration the effect an economic obstacle, such as a recession, could have on an individual's urge to cope with this stressful period with illicit drugs. Furthermore, there is no research to suggest how clinicians and/or treatment institutions can forecast whether the use of monetary resources will be sustainable due to private and/or governmental fund reductions during an economic recession. Based on theories of social learning and social disorganiz

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Bayhan, Kenan. "Testing the Impacts of Social Disorganization and Parochial Control on Public Order Crimes in Turkey." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84173/.

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The primary focus of this study is to investigate the effects of social control mechanisms on public order crimes in Turkey. Supporting efforts of parochial control is a rising trend in crime control activities. Statements regarding the relationship between social disorganization variables, parochial control variables, and spatial distribution of crime have long been studied by researchers. Using the same assumptions in this study, I test their applicability to public order crimes in Turkey. The poverty and residential mobility variables had significant positive effect on public order crimes h

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Verrill, Stephen W. "Social Structure and Social Learning in Delinquency: A Test of Akers’ Social Structure-Social Learning Model." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001305.

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Xiong, Hai Yan. "Urban crime and social disorganization in China : a study of three communities in Guangzhou." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2553429.

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Laurikkala, Minna. "DIFFERENT TIME, SAME PLACE, SAME STORY? A SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVE TO EXAMINING JUVENILE HOMICIDES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4405.

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In 2007, juveniles were involved in a minimum of 1,063 murders in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2008), and a concern over juvenile homicide offenders remains. While increasingly more macrolevel research on juvenile homicide offending has been accumulated, particularly since the 1980s, research focusing on macrolevel correlates of juvenile homicides is still relatively scarce (MacDonald & Gover, 2005; Ousey & Campbell Augustine, 2001). In the first part of this study, several variables relating to the offender, victim, setting, and precursors to the homicide by race and ge

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Laurikkala, Minna K. "Different time, same place, same story? a social disorganization perspective to examining juvenile homicides /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002809.

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Liabeuf, Amanda De Vries. "The impact of social disorganization and public school characteristics in explaining suspensions and expulsions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2646.

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The purpose of this study is to examine if school or community characteristics correlate with suspensions and expulsions. The data examined in this study were drawn from Riverside County schools. The schools were examined to determine if school or social disorganization characteristics correlate with suspension and expulsion rates.

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Howard, Stanley James. "Evaluating Residential Burglaries in a Small Midwestern City using Social Disorganization and Routine Activity Frameworks." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/441.

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Social disorganization and routine activity theories have been studied over the past 30 years. The subsequent research examines prior concepts that were constructed to measure these theories and recent attempts in combining these theories. It also examines how these concepts have been measured using a multitude of geographical scales. It suggests that one consistent set of geographical scales must be used and that these must be easily reproduced in order to test these concepts on a multitude of cities that have a wide variation in populations.

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Oldham, Christina Marie. "The Origins of Parochial Informal Social Control: Examining the Different Effects Among Individual and Neighborhood Influences of Crime Control." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/688.

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Social control is an important element to consider when examining crime and delinquency within a neighborhood. To date, the majority of research pertaining to social control has focused on informal social control at the private level. Recent research has suggested, however, that informal social control at the parochial level is gaining significance due to changes within society. Using individuals' perceptions measured through survey data in Peoria, Illinois, this study seeks to determine if neighborhood structural and social characteristics, posited by social disorganization theory, influen

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Williams, Kristin N. "Neighborhoods and Crime: An Examination of Social Disorganization and Extra-Community Crime in St. Louis." NCSU, 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02082008-213439/.

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According to social disorganization and systemic theories, crime will flourish in areas with high residential mobility, low socioeconomic status, high racial heterogeneity, and high rates of family disruption. Essentially, these theories posit that these forms of structural disadvantage weaken the ability of local residents to achieve mutual goals and solve neighborhood problems, thereby resulting in high crime rates. Several studies have examined the utility of the social disorganization tradition for understanding macro-level variation in crime rates, particularly across neighborhoods. I rev

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Poole, Aaron. "Road Networks, Social Disorganization and Lethality, an Exploration of Theory and an Examination of Covariates." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6005.

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Utilizing a Criminal Event Perspective, the analyses of this dissertation test a variety of relationships to the dependent variable: the Criminal Lethality Index. Data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the Census and American Community Survey, the American Trauma Society, and data derived from the Census's mapping TIGER files are combined to create a database of 190 cities. This database is used to test road network connectivity (Gama Index), medical resources, criminal covariates and Social Disorganization variables in relation to a city's Criminal Lethality Index. OLS r

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Schnellinger, Rusty P. "Disorganization, Communities, and Prescription Drugs: An Investigation of the Social Context of Non-Medical Use." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595271499253138.

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Howard, Stanley J. "Evaluating residential burglaries in a small midwestern city using social disorganization and routine activity frameworks /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791982321&sid=14&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Smith, Hayden. "SOCIAL PATHOGENIC SOURCES OF POOR COMMUNITY HEALTH." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3496.

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The United States currently provides a health care system that is neither efficient nor equitable. Despite outspending the world on health care, over three-fourths of developed countries produce better health outcomes (Auerbach et al., 2000). Simultaneously, the "Ecological School of Thought" has documented the large impact that social, economic, and environmental circumstances play in health outcomes. Unfortunately, these 'ecological" studies are frequently conducted without theoretical justification, and rely solely on a cross-sectional research design and a myriad of unrelated variables. Th

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Freedman, Daniel Brian. "Predicting Neighborhood-Level Recidivism and Residential Status of Sexual Offenders within the Context of Social Disorganization Theory." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291055501.

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Pinson, Tonisia M. "A Study of Neighborhood Level Effects on the Likelihood of Reporting to the Police." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cj_theses/2.

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Research on reporting crime to the police on the individual- and incident- levels has received much attention over the years. However, many studies examining neighborhood-level effects on reporting are limited in scope. The current study examines the relationship between neighborhood characteristics central to social disorganization theory and police notification. Data for this study were derived from Warner’s (2004) study entitled “Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000.” The analysis uses OLS regression models to isolate ho

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Moore, David M. "Crime that is organized: A Case Study on Gangs in Chicago's Impoverished Ghetto." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73794.

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In this paper, I argue for a paradigm shift against general social groupings of organized criminal groups operating throughout the United States. Using Social Constructionism to drive a literature review conducted by way of Discourse Analysis, I spotlight ways in which broad characterizations of "organized crime" led to a mis-handling of gang issues today. Through relying on federally-originating definitions and characterizations, law enforcement and welfare agencies are unequipped for understanding the origins of and motives behind modern gangs and their agendas. The second half of this pa

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Echazarra, Alfonso. "Social disorganisation, immigration and perceived crime in Spanish neighbourhoods." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/social-disorganisation-immigration-and-perceived-crime-in-spanish-neighbourhoods(e5f61ca2-5d27-4491-8ec6-f81b7c36f8de).html.

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This dissertation adopts a quantitative approach to investigate the determinants of residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood crime, focusing specifically on a series of structural factors at the community level, in accordance with the social disorganisation model. Using different statistical models, including correlations, linear regression, multilevel models and spatial regression analyses, and several Spanish data sources, in particular the 2001 Population and Housing Census and a nationally representative survey conducted in 2006, the research confirms the relevance of its exogenous sources

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Lane, Erin C. "Urban disadvantage, social disorganization, and racial profiling an analysis of ecology and police officers' race-specific search behaviors /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0012660.

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Jackson, Aubrey L. "Three Essays on the Protective Effects of Women’s Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Resources on Intimate Partner Violence and Perceptions of Social Disorder." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367251432.

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Michael, Elizabeth Mari. "Predicting the Prevalence of Students' Perceptions of Safety: A Theoretical Integration of Social Disorganization and Perceived Disorder within Schools." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1383434097.

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Covington, Michele. "CORRELATES AND CAUSES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS: A CRIMINAL EVENTS ANALYSIS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2766.

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Violence against police officers is a major problem in America. Previous studies on violence and police officers have usually focused on violence by police officers, not violence against police officers. This study is the first of its kind as it examines violence against police officers from a comprehensive, criminal events perspective with detailed use of force/officer violence data collected by the Orlando Police Department. Individual officer characteristics, individual offender characteristics, situational variables, and geographical factors are considered. Logistic regression results indi

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Issa, Rania N. "The Impact of Structural Disadvantage on Homicides in Cleveland From 1990 to 2010." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1497298643696709.

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Rice, Heather Marie. "Neighborhood Disorganization, Social Support, Substance Use and Functioning amongst Adolescents: An Analysis of the Ohio Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice Initiative." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499463442029744.

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Butcher, Fredrick W. "Measuring the Effect of Exposure to Violence: An Analysis of the Behavioral Health/ Juvenile Justice Initiative." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342617774.

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WRIGHT, EMILY M. "Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1213908411.

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Manzano, Liliana Elizabeth. "Experiences of violent and property victimization in Santiago neighbourhoods : multilevel approaches to social disorganization theory and new ecological studies of crime." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33247.

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Social Disorganization Theory (SDT) stated that in poor and unstable neighbourhoods, residents may have difficulty developing and maintaining social order, due to the weaknesses of their social networks and the infrequent exercise of informal control. As a consequence, in those areas criminal victimization tends to be high and persists over time. Latin American poor neighbourhoods are often characterised by high residential stability, dense informal networks, strong social cohesion, and yet they often have high levels of violent crime, which constitutes a challenge for SDT. Studies from new ec

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Başıbüyük, Oğuzhan. "Social (Dis)organization and Terror related Crimes in Turkey." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9796/.

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The primary focus of this study is to explore the relationship between structural factors of a specific society and occurrence of terror related crimes. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to examine how or to what extent social disorganization theory, which is the basic theoretical foundation of this study, can explain terrorism related crimes in Turkey. Although several previous studies investigated the social and structural dimensions of terrorism in a country, many of those studies did not go beyond investigating the impacts of traditional structural factors such as poverty, inequ

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Parlier, Jacqueline Marie. "A Social Control Based Analysis of the Effect of Community Context upon Self Reported Delinquency Rates." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1827.

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Social disorganization and social control are two seemingly competing theories attempting to explain crime and delinquency. In this study, social control and social disorganization are measured in a sample of college students via self-report surveys using questions derived from Hirschi's social control questionnaire and a previously employed social disorganization measure. Factor and reliability analyses were examined to validate each of these key constructs. Zero-order correlations, regression analyses, and path analysis were then used to test the key propositions of these theories. These tes

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Miller, Allison Denise. "Preventing Community Violence: A Case Study of Metro Detroit and Interfaith Activism." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98774.

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Community violence can have lasting impacts on populations that experience it, including but not limited to, financial damages, property damage, and psychological trauma. Therefore, exploring mechanisms of violence prevention is increasingly important, especially within the context of multicultural societies. This research does just that by approaching community violence prevention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including aspects of public health, political science, criminology, and sociology. This dissertation explores the interfaith organization InterFaith Leadership Council of Metro

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Santos, Kristin L. "Neighborhood Effects on Physical Child Abuse, and Outcomes of Mental Illness and Delinquency: An HLM Analysis." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491265748642613.

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Craft, LaMesha Lashal. "Perceived Threats to Food Security and Possible Responses Following an Agro-Terrorist Attack." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3289.

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The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks exposed vulnerabilities to U.S. homeland security and defense, leading U.S. officials to analyze threats to domestic and international interests. Terrorist attacks against food and water supplies (agro-terrorism), were deemed a national security threat because of the assessed fear, economic instability, and social instability that could occur following a food shortage. Research indicated a comprehensive response plan does not exist across the federal, state, and local levels of government to mitigate the public's possible responses to a perceived threat

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Demirci, Suleyman. "Examining Spatiotemporal Change in Neighborhood Crime Using Social Disorganization as a Theoretical Framework: A 10-Year Analysis of Homicide in the City of Richmond, VA." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1727.

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Blumenstein, Lindsey. "Intimate Partner Kidnapping: An Exploratory Analysis." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5906.

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The following study is an exploratory analysis of intimate partner kidnapping. The current study will give a descriptive picture of the victim, offender, and incident characteristics of a form of intimate partner violence that has never been studied before, intimate partner kidnapping, as well as a form of physical violence often seen in the literature, intimate partner assaults. The study will use a combination of the National Incident Based Report System (FBI, 2009), and the American Community Survey (Census, 2012) to identify these characteristics and also to identify any potential relation

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Franze, José Joaquim. "Expansão urbana e a criminalidade violenta : o caso da cidade de Chimoio-Moçambique (2007-2014)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/165479.

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O município de Chimoio tem registrado nos últimos anos um crescimento demográfico assinalável, resultante do processo de industrialização crescente. Na sequência deste crescimento demográfico, assiste-se, por um lado, uma rápida expansão urbana, caracterizada pelo surgimento brusco de novos bairros residenciais como forma de atender à demanda. Em contrapartida, verifica-se a presença quase constante de comportamentos violentos adversos ao tempo anterior a este crescimento, sobretudo nos seus bairros periféricos. A prática reiterada de casos criminais violentos com recurso a armas brancas (facã

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Hood, Kristina Beatrice. "Neighborhood Ritual Integrity: Addressing the Positive and Cultural Aspects of Neighborhoods." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/149.

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This paper investigates whether a new conceptual framework, Neighborhood Ritual Integrity (NRI), addresses the concepts of social capital, collective efficacy, and rituals in a manner which makes it applicable to sociological research. Neighborhood Ritual Integrity (NRI) is a conceptual framework developed in response to various studies, which have established a relationship between neighborhood demographics, structural neighborhood features, crime and adolescent behaviors. Kiser et al., (2007) identified six dimensions that influence short and long term community functioning: Ritual Integri

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