The Prevalence of Crime I urban areas as compared to Rural areas
1. Introduction When it comes to the social disorganization theory, it focuses more about the influence of the society and the environment to the increase in the criminal activity. In that case, an individuals ' neighborhood is a prime factor towards shaping that person to get involved in illegal activities (Borski & Harold, 1995). The immediate environment may but pose an immediate danger it may come out later in life even if the individual might have moved from the place. For people to develop as good citizens, the society needs to uphold certain moral standards. These ethical standards emanate from saying the church rules that are in place, the ethics standards, and need to maintain public order (Borski & Harold, 1995).
If the society fails to uphold such principles, then individual are going to grow up being exposed to various criminal activity. For them such activity will be part of their daily lives, or they may not be feeling any guilty by breaking such social orders even when they move to different environments (Korn & Ruth, 1978). One can say a society full of moral and ethical …show more content…
One such study was done by Adolph Quitlet (1984) who was able to reveal that certain areas experience high crime rates regardless of the nationality and the racial composition of the residents. His book his based on the study that he did by visiting different places and neighborhoods before coming up with his data. He clearly analyzed and come with inferences showing that there is some res where crime is likely to occur regardless of the of the factors mentioned above that have more often used traditionally to explain the variations in crime rates (Korn & Ruth,