The Relevance of Social Disorganization Theory to 21st Century Neighborhood Crime

This consideration of the Chicago School's social disorganization theory uses two recent articles to consider the theory's applicability to current crime trends and patterns of settlement. Major themes across the sources reflect the impact of joblessness and uneven mobility.

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"The ideas and discussion of this paper are well organized; you do a good job including limitations (white collar crime) and practical applications as well to round out the strong ethos and deepen the discussion. The paragraphs stay focused and move into one another smoothly thanks to strong writing, including good use of transition language and sentence variety. Overall, it's clear you've engaged with the ideas and the sources to craft this paper.

My main comment is regarding APA 7, which needs some finetuning throughout the paper. A few issues to focus on include not capitalizing theory names (as is done in the first half of the paper), consistent use of title case for article titles in the body of the paper and sentence case in the References, and proper punctuation around the parenthetical citations. Make sure as well to use the APA author-year citation format each time the source is used in the discussion. This includes when first introducing the articles, such as on page 2, first sentence of the second paragraph, which should read "...Martin Andresen (2006) takes a deeper..." Clearly marking when information is derived from a source, including in summary or by paraphrase, helps differentiate your conclusions and analysis from another's claims; to give one more example, I had trouble in the Sampson paragraph (page 4) determining if claims like "teenagers will naturally just gravitate" represented a sourced claim, backed by evidence, or if, unsourced, risked weakening the presentation by being a broad generalization.

As a final note, I suggest giving the authors' names once more in the conclusion rather than asking the reader to recall which is the "first article" and which is the "second.""

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