Overview

This week we will review two other approaches to studying communities and crime. One perspective focuses on explicating the role of culture and how it impacts crime in a community. Another perspective, which proved to be quite influential at the end of the Twentieth Century, focused on enforcing policing over the minor quality of life crimes, the so-called Brocken Windows theory. We will explore both the central themes in two chapters and then look at the pictures of the communities they create.

Readings:

Chapter 5: Community as a Criminal Culture in Wilcox, Pamela, et al. Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge, Temple University Press, 2017. ProQuest
Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=5124754.

Get the chapter here:

Communities_and_Crime_An_Enduring_American_Challen…_-_5._Community_as_a_Criminal_Culture

Community as a Broken Window in Wilcox, Pamela, et al. Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge, Temple University Press, 2017. ProQuest
Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bmcc/detail.action?docID=5124754.

Get the chapter here:

Communities_and_Crime_An_Enduring_American_Challen…_-_6._Community_as_a_Broken_Window-1-1

Videos:

Power Point