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Social Disorganization and Crime: Searching for the Determinants of Crime at the Community Level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Bráulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva
Bráulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Abstract

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Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves (1989) analyzed data from 238 British neighborhoods to test the mediating effect of indicators of social disorganization. Basing their work on that of Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay (1942), these researchers created indicators such as friendship networks, organizational participation, and the control of street-corner teenaged peer groups, and developed a theory of community level. In this article, we apply the formal logic of Sampson and Groves using data from the first Belo Horizonte victimization survey. In addition, we use data from the 2000 Brazilian Census and the Military Police. The results support the social disorganization theory and demonstrate that crime-rate differences are an effect of community level.

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Robert J. Sampson e W. Byron Groves (1989) analisaram dados de 238 bairros na Inglaterra para testar o efeito mediador dos indicadores de desorganização social. Baseado no trabalho de Clifford R. Shaw e Henry D. McKay (1942), estes pesquisadores criaram indicadores tais como redes de amizade, participação organizacional e controle local de grupos de jovens, e desenvolveram uma teoria do nível comunitário. Neste artigo, aplicamos a lógica formal de Sampson e Groves usando dados do primeiro survey de vitimização da cidade de Belo Horizonte. Em adição, usamos dados do Censo realizado no ano de 2000 e da Polícia Militar. Os resultados suportam a teoria da desorganização social e demonstram que diferenças nas taxas de crimes são decorrentes de um efeito do nível comunitário.

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Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , 2014 , pp. 218 - 230
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Copyright © 2014 by the University of Texas Press

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