In certain parts of Baltimore some neighborhoods experience some tough times. For example, look at Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and the problems they have to endure. This neighborhood has extremely high crime rates, bad housing conditions, and concerning health issues that you would not see in most other neighborhoods. Also the demographics side of Sandtown seems to show that the majority race is African-Americans and shows that very few have college degrees. Thus putting the majority in the poverty section. Now looking at a wealthier neighborhood, Roland Park, there tends to be less poverty among the citizens and overall condition of the place is much better. Look at the crime rate for instance, Sandtown has over quadruple the amount of domestic violence, non-fatal shootings, and homicide rates than Roland.…show more content… This theory originates from Shaw and McKay, who states that within their neighborhood studies traits develop to define a place. For example, look at the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and the crime rates, is it all because of they type of people there or is there other factors that play in a hand with that. According to Shaw and McKay, the main factor is the placement/environment of the neighborhood. In Sandtown the numbers show that the majority of the people living there are in poverty and who ever moves there tends to be as well. Normally this kind of neighborhood does not have strong community ties among each other and leads to no social control, thus leading to delinquency among the children and growing up in a life of poverty/crime. Whereas the Roland Park neighborhood is complete opposite because, this neighborhood has little to no poverty and has very strong community ties among each other. Thus giving the people within the neighborhood social
