It represented an attempt to uncover the complex relationship between deviance and neighborhood . According to the Chicago perspective, entire neighborhoods had become disorganized. The population is geographically unstably. There is r apid movement of populations into and out of the transitional neighborhood . The transitional neighborhoods contain a variety of racial and ethnic groups .
Population density is very high .
Poverty Low levels of education . A. Gangs and the transitional neighborhood Frederick Thrasher found a greater number of gangs in transitional neighborhoods than in more stable neighborhoods. He noted that the gang is a social creation. The gang is the way people organize themselves to cope with disorganized neighborhoods. The gang functions in two ways.