SOCY 389: Test 2 Questions with Complete Solutions

Structural approaches introduce to the study of urban crime? Correct Answer-social ecology and environments, the aggregate and collective level (crime rates, NOT individual crime) macro-social factors that explain inter-city variation of crime Correct Answer-income inequality, racial composition, neighbourhood density, high population foundational work Steffensimer and Haynie Correct Answer-same structural factors for men and women, but men experience them more powerfully - joblessness, low income - strongest predictor of female offending is male offending Brusons and Miller Correct Answer-- school violence and poor neighbourhoods, how ecological patterns of under-resourced schools and the culture is different in the neighbourhoods - violence in school is brought back into the neighbourhoods and other networks get involved (gangs) How can crime rates be different across males and females according to structural research? Correct Answer-- co-offending: females co-offend within males