ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on social control factors that describe foreign extraction and social contacts pertaining to the family/household. Such factors have shown to be strongly related to crime on the area level. The general picture of the influences on crime from the local social environment is complex. The chapter describes how micro-level interaction may be modeled and what aggregating individuals' influences on area crime means for the construction of a model of crime on the macro or area level. It then discusses how influences on the individuals may be constituted and how macro-level conditions may arise. The chapter also argues that the ideas that lack of social resources causes strain and that social resource give the potential to manage various social problems that cause crime can both be combined with the idea about the influence on crime of social control.
