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Substantial poverty in these communities along with extensive physical deterioration can affect the social morale and outlook of residents. In these neighborhoods, people tend to spend a lot of time outside, where they encounter strong temptations and opportunities to deviate. These neighborhoods also feature low parental supervision, and since the children spend much time out of their homes, decreasing opportunities for oversight. All of these conditions may contribute to deviant acts. There are a number of ways to design buildings and neighborhoods to reduce crime (Felson, 2002: Chapter 9).
While norms state relative positions, some receive more attention in society than others, and these differences often depend on the power of certain groups to enforce their norms over members and other people. Criteria for deviance may depend on the relative power of groups to enforce and extend their norms on others. Social power, then, strongly affects an understanding of why deviance is relative. For example, strong negative attitudes toward suicide, prostitution, homosexuality, and drunkenness, among other acts, have stemmed mainly from the actions of certain conservative church groups (see Greenberg, 1988) and from conservative middle-class norms generally.
The expression deviant place describes a physical location typically connected to deviant acts. Conventional crime is more frequent in cities than in small towns and in some neighborhoods more than others within cities. In the 1920s, two researchers at the University of Chicago, Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay, found a relationship between delinquency and certain areas of that city. More recently, Stark (1987) has theorized a relationship between deviant acts and certain types of communities with high population densities and crowded housing conditions.