Social Organisation as Deterrence

In response to another professor, I recently wrote the text below, which I think may help people think better in terms of crime deterrence.
Another author wrote:
“Social disorganisation theory has its history dating back to the early twentieth Century. It is based on the belief that crime and delinquency are associated with the absence or presence of communal institutions where communal institutions can refer to schools, churches or even local governments. In the theory, a community is considered organised when members belong or perform activities coordinated by central and representative figure within the community such as a local official or priest. By participating in these activities, communities create relationships between each other and consequently build a sense of communality. The latter serves to reinforce cohesion in society and curbs crimes or delinquency.” (Article Nexus, 2018)
Gangster (2016) talks about how caring is calling each gang member to check on things. Care is usually associated with friendship, and therefore no criminal attack, so that even the deviant believes this theory: Creating relationships means building a sense of community and creating relationships may equate simply having constant, and frequent, contact with each other to check on how they are doing. That is certainly something that could be achieved through some weekly meeting at the local church.
The slides you presented talk about some difficulties with associating the characteristics of a household or even of a neighbourhood with social disorganisation. I am thinking of Rio de Janeiro because that is a urban area that allows for us to see lots of elements of social disorganisation: For instance, slums usually grow around the finest parts of the town. Tijuca was a family area in 1990 but it was also surrounded by slums. Those slums are not half as dangerous as the slums of Baixada. The difference is that the Catholic Church, through the nuns from the Colegio Santa Teresa de Jesus - a very expensive, and also very prestigious, college in Rio, visit the slums in Tijuca regularly. The nuns took me there at least once, so that I could accompany and help. One of their objectives is frequently creating events for the community. That would then be an organised community according to our definition and it all seems to match what they say very well, so that it is very likely that 'social organisation' is an element that serves the purpose of deterring crime.


References

Article Nexus. (2018). Critical Literature Review Of Social Disorganisation Theory Of Criminology.
Retrieved from http://articlenexus.com/marketing/critical-literature-review-of-social-disorganisation-theory-of-criminology/  
GangsterTV(2016). La Gang Wars (National Geographic). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY4ucB3t7hg


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