Deck 12: The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods, Ryken Gratte

Question 1

According to Grattet, defended neighborhoods ______.

A)Are ethnically homogenous and react with defensive tactics when facing invasion from ethnic others
B)Adopts a very narrow range of actions as defenses
C)Refer only to white communities
D)That bias crimes occur when majority groups face large and growing minority populations

Answer 1

Are ethnically homogenous and react with defensive tactics when facing invasion from ethnic others

Question 2

According to Grattet, social disorganization can be measured by ______.

A)Ethnic heterogeneity
B)Concentrated disadvantage
C)Percentage of new residents
D)All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with Grattet's findings?

A)Ethnic conflicts are likely to erupt in settings where there is little capacity for informal social control to manage or mediate tensions between groups
B)Even when social disorganization is held constant, biased crimes remain affected by "neighborhood defense"
C)Biased crime is also reflective of broader social processes of intergroup conflict
D)Biased crimes share little in common with other kinds of offending behavior

Answer 3

Biased crimes share little in common with other kinds of offending behavior

Question 4

Explain the connection between Grattet's notion of "defended neighborhoods" and the ideas of social disorganization theory and collective efficacy.Could this connection be made for any other type of deviant behavior? Explain.