Chapter 24--crime,
disorder--aimed
specialization
at
violence, and
showing ethnic
kinds of violence:
and
feuding in the
vengence,
The assumption
for instance.
culture
has its own
each
that
was
patterns of disorder and that these
tell us a great deal about those
can
Woods
cultures
patterns of order°
example,
for
South,
in
the
arson
relates in several subtle ways to
Southerner§ concepts of order, both
Idle
in society and the landscape°
speculation has claimed special
highway mystiques for Texas and
California and for certain cities;
there any means of assessing and
are
depicting local specialties in these
What of cock fighting?
matters?
Is it unIncidence of gambling?
reasonable to expect ethnic differin rates of certain crimes?
ences
Rape seems less frequent in the
Could
South and among Mexicans.
detailed studies, with an eye to the
backgrounds of principals, have a
li•elihood of showing ethnic differences?
We have, it is assumed, little
Still less
doubt about feuding.
When is an illegal
about moonshining.
act merely an unapproved custom, such
Are there anywhere rural
as polygamy?
equivalents of urban gang turfs?
rage,
South,
in
Rate per
100,000
•
5.0
7.2
4.1
4.8
3.0-3.9
•
FIG. 3.4. Age-adjusted homicide rate, white population, three-year
average, 1959-1961, (Adapted from:
Nation al Center for Health Statistics, Homicide in the United States, 1950-1964,
Public Health Service
Publication No. 1000, Series 20, No. 6 [Washington., D.C., 1967], Table 2,
pp. 16-17.)
1.7
2.5
0.8
1.4
FIGURE 2
AVERAGE SENTENCE
LEASI
WEIGHTS
FAVD,•ABI_E
FIGURE 4
PERCENTAGE PLACED ON PROBATION
TO DEFEND,aNTS
QUARTILE
ACTUAl.
WEIGHT
QUARTILE
CO•SID|RABL'•
FIGURE 3
RELATIVE SENTENCE WEIGHTS
•
•
2nd
m
4tit
1st
ACTUAL
GREATER
USE OF PROBATION
THAN EXPECTED
CONSIDERABLY
FIGURE 5
ACTUAL
LESS
USE OF PROBATION
THAN EXPECTED
CONSIDERABLY
RELATIVE USE
OF
PROBATION
23-Atlantic•
21-Westmoreland
MMF
LT's
16-Dauphin
8-Diamond
Zulu Nation
8-Oxford
24-Redner
15-Oxford
28-Oxford
)son
One Foreign Car
0
INCIDENTS
[•]
500 FEET
Figure 27:
Distribution
of Parked
Foreign
Cars
in Fairmount
('(•(L]
ONE BLOCK
1000
0
YARDS
Figure
22.
Turfs and Incidents between
Street Gangs, 1966-1970,
32 Act±ve
North
Philadelphia