Getting Paid Youth Crime and Work in the Inner cityBy Mercer L Sullivan
“Getting Paid” Youth Crime and Work in the Inner city By Mercer L. Sullivan The comparison of three, Brooklyn neighborhoods in Sullivan’s book “Getting Paid”, illustrate Shaw & McKay’s cultural deviance and social disorganization theories. They believe that human behavior is altered by environment rather than biology and that crime is due to the lack of social control. Sullivan’s study provided actual examples of this theory through the use of boys from three very different cliques, all residing in Brooklyn, New York. ... They have a particularly high crime rate, especially in auto theft. ... They also have a high crime rate, particularly in personal violence. ... This neighborhood had a much lower crime rate compared to the previous two.