Social Structural Theories Social disorganization theory is the inability of a community structure to realize the common values of its residents and maintain social control. ... They view juvenile delinquency as a result from a breakdown of social control among the traditional primary groups, such as families and neighborhoods, because of the social disorganization of the community. ... Two important policy implications of structural explanations of delinquency are the consequences of the reduced capital that lower class children have and the importance of disorganized communities in...

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All aspects of this area become negative, while the financially sound areas flourish and take control of the entire society (33). Those who live in poverty are left with no control, and instinctively become resentful. ... Shifting toward prevention methods will not only allow the criminal justice system to react to crime that has already occurred, which has previously been the policy, but also understand the root of crimes being committed. ... Therefore, school policies should be of great importance in the prevention of criminal behavior since the majority of young people's time is spe...

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With rational choice theory, the scared straight program is a policy implication of it. ... A study by Petrosino and colleagues' even went one step further and randomly assigned a group of at-risk youth to take part in Scared Straight programs and then had a control group that did not, the ending results were very surprising. ... Mark Lipsey, of the Vanderbilt Institute for public policy studies, concurred with past researchers that youth who participate in these programs have higher recidivism rates than youth in control groups (Wilson 2012). ... The last critique I saw about the progra...

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The media has a tendency to portray youth crimes as getting out of control which they often refer to as moral panics. ... News reports fit into a textually constructed reality, where public perception and official policy are part of a loop. The more stories citizens read about crime especially of events they cannot control, the more likely they are to think crime is out of control, which will produce more stories and generate interest in legal reform, a condition promoting the production of crime news in the first place. ... If crime is perceived to be out of control, then there is pressu...

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Are juveniles as under control today as they were in the past? ... The government follows the policy and has always followed the policy that no crime goes unpunished. ... Not only does the opposition believe that the minor was influenced, but they also believe that the juvenile was not able to control his or herself (Emerson 8). ...

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These gangs fit into both national (well established, tend to commit more severe crimes) and local (neighborhood or community based gangs tend to control their territories through violence and intimidation) categories. ... Such disorder affects not only the direct community, it also suggests to any outsiders looking in that the community has no control over itself and has in fact lost its informal social control. ...

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- Fear of society's reaction may control a person's criminal solution... - The more severe, certain and swift the reaction, the better it can control criminal behavior... The difference between personal and social control theories of deviance lies in the assumption of social control theory that social bonds are a stronger protection against deviance. ... It is also possible the weakened personal and social controls may be interconnected. ... It is now for the social policy maker to take up the issue and make scientific studies to understand the problem and propose measures to ta...

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Degeneration theorists and criminal anthropologists converged to convince the general public and policymakers of the need for eugenic policies to prevent the socially undesirable people from reproducing, which became the Feeblemindedness Theory. ... Like the "born criminal" the insane criminal could not control his criminal behavior, but didn't have the telltale stigmata to easily identify them. ... Lombroso did not use a control group to compare his results to, which became the biggest flaw in his research and theory, "the Lombrosion Fallacy". ... Hooten studied all, adult-male groups ...

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The discovery of embezzlement requires the institution to file a criminal report and a criminal referral form, which removes the control of an investigation from the institution. ... While the actual financial loss from an embezzlement may be significant, it will be relatively insignificant compared to the losses caused by these other factors that will become evident after an embezzlement has been discovered: lowered employee morals due to increased security measures, and aggravated by distrust of other employees; employees" disorientation and their accompanying mistakes, resulting in poor cu...

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Its new goal was to rehabilitate, which was to determine the cause of the problem and develop policies and practices to correct it. ... Rather, I was and still am in favor of classical school of thought and the crime control model because I believed that crime was a result of a rational choice that criminals made, and thus it was only fair that they'd be incarcerated for their wrongdoings. ...

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Similar to other drugs, most notably alcohol, marijuana is a controlled substance with some negative side effects that we still do not fully understand. ... This study on the ecological impacts of marijuana dispensaries based on the model of Englewood will benefit future policy-makers, designers and planners alike in providing a substantial marijuana crime/safety reference which has never before been available....

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As a matter of fact, both phrases point equally to the fact that sociological explanations of deviance function as a product of social control rather than a product of psychology or genetic inheritance. ... Furthermore, the distinctiveness of the approach is that it draws attention to deviance as the outcome of social imputations and the exercise of social control. ... He claims that a difference in juvenile justice can be accounted for by different policies of the police, and by the ability of middle class parents to negotiate justice. ...

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