Week 2-The Chicago School

The Chicago school focuses on individual causes of crime rather than situational causes?

• True

• False

The city is viewed a living organism and to function effectively it needs housing, schools, hospitals & public transport

• True

• False

According to the Chicago school, what is the cause of street level crime?

• Urban environment

• Individual pathology

• Capitalism

• Juvenile delinquents

How many zones are in Burgess concentric zone theory?

• 3

• 5

• 4

• 6

What zone is the most criminogenic?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Why is the zone of transition most likely to foster street level crime?

• (a) Because it attracts deviant people

• (b) Because of less informal social control

• (c) Because of high levels of social disadvantage

• (d) Both B and C

Contemporary social efficacy theory suggests that to reduce crime....

• Social capital and collective efficacy are needed

• Zero tolerance policing

• Rich people are needed

• All of the above

Crime prevention through environmental design

• is the most effective way of reducing urban crime

• is useless

• can be useful but disperses crime to other areas

• none of the above

Neighbourhoods that have highest rates of crime have three things in common

• Physical dilapidation, poverty, Heterogeneity

• Poverty, violence, physical dilapidation

• Physical dilapidation, low levels of education, Heterogeneity

• Heterogeneity, violence, physical dilapidation

Crime prevention through environmental design involves...

• Natural surveillance

• Natural access control

• Space management

• All of the above