Hawkins' Propositions
How many propositions are there?
Three
How many major weaknesses did Hawkins find
Five
Where did he research?
Philadelphia
in the depressed neighboorhoods are ___ and ___ families
decent, street
More likely to experience economic strain
African Americans
Black on Black Crime
Proposition One
The Theory lacks...
Empirical Grounding
What was the title of his book?
The code of the streets
how do people who adhere to the code support themselves
by any means necessary
Who is Darnell Hawkins
An american Sociologist and crimionologist
__________ creates a climate of powerlessness in which individual acts of violence are likely to take place
Economic Deprivation
There is an extreme emphasis on...
mentalistic values of individuals
how does the book loosely define respect
being treated "right" or being granted the difference one deserves
families accept mainstream values and try to teach them to the children
-strict
-respect authority
-behave morally
what are "decent" families
The range of structural, situational, and institutional variables mentioned that affect African Americans
-Historical patterns developed during slavery
-the immediate social context of an individual
-the operation of the criminal justice system
Economic deprivation creates a climate of...
powerlessness in which individual acts of violence are likely to take place
The year he provided his critique
1983
What did his book focus on?
interpersonal violence in impoverished inner-city communities and how they adapt codes to survive
-children are loosely supervised
-believe in the code
marked by disorganization
children are loosely supervised
Which is more serious?
Black kills White, stranger
Black kills White, family
Black kills white, stranger
Lack of attention to pre-homicidal behavior, leads to more crime
The Second Proposition
What does subculture theory underemphasize?
-the effects of the law on patterns of criminal homicide
- the structural, situational, and institutional variables that affect interpersonal homicide
what did he believe was at the heart of the code
the issue of respect
what is involved in proving "manhood"
getting pretty women, defending themselves, supporting themselves
What was Anderson's field of Study
Ethnology