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6. What American city did Park and Burgess develop the idea of a city having a series of concentric circles?

  • Plymouth
  • Chicago
  • California
  • New York

7. Which zone or 'concentric circle' did they argue had high crime rates as a result of succesive 'waves of immigration'?

  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 3
  • Zone 2
  • Zone 1

8. Shaw and McKay developed the work of Park and Burgess from the Chicago School and focused their research on what zone?

  • Zone 5
  • Zone 3
  • Zone 2
  • Zone 4

9. They argued that high crime rates was a result of high turnover of populations which lead to....

  • Anomie
  • Social Disorganisation
  • Marginalisation

10. For Shaw and McKay, this effect prevented community cohesion which could regulate their members behaviour.

  • True
  • False

11. Who talked about the process of 'tipping' carried out by local councils regarding housing 'problem families' on the same estates?

  • Young
  • Baldwin and Bottoms
  • Shaw and Mckay
  • Clarke

12. According to this approach, which kind of area is more likely to have high crime rates?

  • Urban, inner city areas
  • Rural areas
  • Rural, inner city areas

13. What is 'Differential Association' according to Sutherland and Cassey?

  • Criminal behaviour depends on who you associate with
  • The idea that crime is an individual, rational choice
  • Differenes between crime in rural and urban areas

14. Despite the claim that urban environments have particularly high crime rates, what does this theory largely ignore?

  • the working class
  • Over-policing in urban areas
  • Social conditions and its links with crime

15. The Broken Window thesis is the idea that if a window is left broken, it should be left in its condition until its is notified to the police.

  • False
  • True

16. Who created this thesis?

  • Wilson and Kelling
  • Morris and Felson
  • Lea and Young
  • Taylor