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A 5 page research paper that first offers a newspaper account of gang related crime and then discusses how social organization theory offers possible explanations for its causation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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sought the cooperation of that citys black community in identifying the killers who shot four teenage girls, who died as a result of a bloody gun battle that local residents
indicated had its roots in antagonism between two gangs, the "Johnson Crew and the Burger Bars" over crack cocaine "turf" (Norfolk and Wright, 2003, p. 4). The rival gangs have
been blamed for several shootings and are perceived by many in that city to be beyond the reach of the police by residents of the Handsworth and Ashton areas of
Birmingham (Norfolk and Wright, 2003). Both gangs are composed of males who are largely of Jamaican extraction and the leaders of the Jamaican community urged anyone with information to come
forward. In four minutes that elapsed between the shootings and the arrival of the police, all but 25 out of a large crowd of witnesses vanished, rather than face questioning
(Norfolk and Wright, 2003). The following discussion of crime causation looks at how social organization theory helps to explain how this sort of crime could happen. Why should young
people, from similar backgrounds sharing the same cultural orientation, tear their neighborhoods apart with violence and mayhem? Numerous theories of have been proposed to examine this social phenomenon, in search
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community social organization to patterns of offending (Browning, Feinberg and Dietz, 2004).
Community social organization has been defined as "the patterns and functions of formal and informal networks and institutions and organization in a locale" (Ernst, 2001, p. 135). As this suggests,
social organization describes how a neighborhood functions, that is, its macro-structural characteristics, such as poverty, economic decline, residential mobility and family disruption (Ernst, 2001). Recent research in this area ash
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