this article aims to sociological explain of fear of crime in the province of hamedan. at the regional level the cities are the unit of analysis and we have tried to explain the fear of crime in these cities with emphasis on the level of development. independent variables included in the micro-level social disorganization, social capital and social control. the population consists of all heads ...

Crime is a common social phenomenon existing for thousands of years. Due to different political and economic system, national tradition, and cultural background, crime presents various patterns in different countries. Rapid social transition accompanying economic growth and system transformation make crime a serious social problem. Social transition affects social life in all directions and ind...

Social disorganization theory focuses on the relationship between neighborhood structure, social control, and crime. Recent theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between community characteristics and crime has led to important refinements of social disorganization theory, yet there remain some substantive and methodological deficiencies in this body of work. This article addresses ...

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Why do some neighborhoods have higher crime rates than others? What is it about certain communities that consistently generate high crime rates? These are the central questions of interest for social disorganization theory, a macro‐level perspective concerned with explaining the spatial distribution of crime across areas. ...

Disentangling links between neurocognition, social cognition, and metacognition offers the potential to improve interventions for these cognitive processes. Disorganized symptoms have shown promise for explaining the limiting relationship that neurocognition holds with both social cognition and metacognition. In this study, primary aims included: 1) testing whether conceptual disorganization, a...

Urban communities can benefit from behavior regulation of their members in the interest of collective values. The absence of such control is related to the concept of social disorganization and is hypothesized to be associated with crime and anti-social behavior in neighborhoods. Social disorganization is, however, hard to quantify due to the lack of data and the inherent complexity that emerge...

Preface The hypothesis of this paper is that the differences between Negroes and whites in the incidence of family disorganization are a function of race as a summary statement of their differential social-ecological positions. Using the 1/1000 Census tape for 1960, multiple regressions were run for various indicators of family disorganization on race and dimensions of social-ecological positio...