highest income and lowest poverty percent. La Barriada fell in the middle on both categories. This information supports the theory. Ethnicity of the neighborhoods, however, one of the primary reasons for delinquency according to this theory, is not consistent in this study. Projectville, the highest in crime, is the one with the least ethnic heterogeneity, according to Table 6, with 91% black, 3% white and 6% other. La Barriada, with the middle crime rate, was the one with the most heterogeneity: 34% white, 4% black and 62% other. The second theory, Differential Social Organization, was created by Edwin Sutherland. This theory proposes that a group or societal crime rate is determined by the extent to which it is organized in favor of crime versus organized against crime. According to the theory, an organized neighborhood is one that has a strong infrastructure in place to fight and deter crime. Groups that the theory takes into account as being detrimental to crime are the police, schools, families, and other neighborhood groups designed to keep kids out of trouble. Groups considered favorable to crime include the mafia, gangs and other groups that commit crime or encourage other people to commit crime for them. This theory is supported very clearly by the three neighborhoods in the study. Projectville, with the highest crime rates, had an organized infrastructure in place which supports criminal behavior. For example, when a juvenile steals something in Projectville, he knows that someone will be available to buy it from him. Drugstores, like Key Foods, A&P, they have a drug section. We used to go in there and take them and sell them to the stores on the corner. (Sullivan 153) Other kids would steal gold chains right from peoples necks then they would sell it to the pawnshops that are supposed to check to see if it is stolen. Lucky Giles reported selling stolen gold right in Manhattans major jewelry district. (Sullivan 1...
