According to Shaw and McKay's research, a juvenile who is living in an area deemed to be furthest away from the central business district is ________ to commit delinquency because they are clean and well kept, and government as well as private entities invest in those areas, than in other areas of the city.

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Answer:

less likely

Explanation:

Social disorganization theory is a place-based theory of crime developed by Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay, this theory shifted criminological scholarship from a focus on the pathology of people to the pathology of places

Hence, it holds that a person's residential location (as against the kind of company, he or she keeps) is a determining factor shaping the likelihood that that person will become involved in illegal activities.

Their theory ''demonstrate that delinquency was already dispersed in urban areas, and that more wealthy and important groups moved to avoid the existing social disorganization''

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