Broken windows theory

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by Adrian Wooldridge  · 7 Apr 2026  · 342pp  · 129,097 words

Bob Lanier in Houston followed suit. The level of violent crime fell sharply from the highs of the 1980s and early 1990s. Giuliani predictably did ‘broken windows theory’ great damage by dint of simply being Giuliani, hogging all the credit and quarrelling with everyone. Academics also pushed back against the theory for both

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good and bad reasons. They pointed out that crime fell across the US in the 1990s not only in cities implementing broken windows theory. They also gnawed away at the idea that there is a tight link between cleaning up the streets and tackling the most serious forms of

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of cross-border, enterprise-scale organized crime. ******** As payments expert Scott Loftesness said on Twitter when we were discussing this, we need to remember the ‘broken window’ theory of policing. Chapter 7 Moving to mobile Machine intelligence will make us far smarter [because] our smart phones are basically supercomputers. — Eric Schmidt, Google’s

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rhetoric, Moynihan had plenty of company among social scientists and political pundits. James Q. Wilson, the noted social scientist and a co-creator of the “broken windows” theory of policing, retreated to abstract moralizing and tautology. “Drug use is wrong because it is immoral,” he claimed, “and it is immoral because it enslaves

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,” Windows Experience Blog, June 1, 2015, https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/06/01/hello-world-windows-10-available-on-july-29. 115. David Auerbach, “Broken Windows Theory,” Slate, August 3, 2015, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_how

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CRIME “MIRACLE”: The “Athenian period” quote came from an author interview with former police captain William J. Gorta, one of CompStat’s inventors. / 116 The broken window theory: See James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” Atlantic Monthly, March 1982. / 118 Bratton hiring more police in

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by Marc J. Dunkelman  · 3 Aug 2014  · 327pp  · 88,121 words

powerful effect on a community’s civic health than neighborly ties. And in that, Sampson’s argument echoes James Q. Wilson and George Kelling’s “broken windows” theory, introduced in the early 1980s, which suggested that the implicit sign of disorder sent by an unrepaired pane of glass has the potential to set

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker  · 24 Sep 2012  · 1,351pp  · 385,579 words

after a cursory wipe of their windshield with a filthy squeegee. The rationale, originally articulated by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in their famous Broken Windows theory, was that an orderly environment serves as a reminder that police and residents are dedicated to keeping the peace, whereas a vandalized and unruly one

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far the biggest crime prevention achievement in the recorded history of metropolitan policing.”168 What about Broken Windows policing in particular? Most academics hate the Broken Windows theory because it seems to vindicate the view of social conservatives (including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani) that violence rates are driven by law and

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). When the commuters were in the presence of the illegal graffiti, twice as many of them threw the flyer on the ground—exactly what the Broken Windows theory predicted. In other studies, people littered more when they saw unreturned shopping carts strewn about, and when they heard illegal firecrackers being set off in

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decline needs an explanation that is distinct from the seven-year homicide decline, politicians and criminologists have not jumped into the breach. There is no Broken Windows theory, no Freakonomics theory, that has tried to explain the three-decade plunge. Probably several causes pushed in the same direction. The portion of the downslope

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. 164. Boston policing: F. Butterfield, “In Boston, nothing is something,” New York Times, Nov. 21, 1996; Winship, 2004. 165. New York policing: MacDonald, 2006. 166. Broken Windows theory: Wilson & Kelling, 1982. 167. New York success story: Zimring, 2007; MacDonald, 2006. 168. Biggest crime prevention achievement in history: Zimring, 2007, p. 201. 169. Problems

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Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design

by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc  · 15 Feb 2010  · 1,233pp  · 239,800 words

Patrimonies Architectural et Urbain’ in France. Cleaning and Maintenance A lack of proper maintenance can easily precipitate a spiral of decline. As Wilson & Kelling’s broken windows theory of crime prevention contends, when a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, the rest of the windows will soon be broken. Wilson

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by Colin Ellard  · 14 May 2015  · 313pp  · 92,053 words

magazine, as the cornerstone of a major new theory describing the origins of urban crime. The key argument of Wilson and Kelling’s so-called broken windows theory was that physical signs of disorder—broken or boarded up windows, litter, or graffiti—served as overt signals that nobody cared about the surrounding environment

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States and beyond, a measurable drop in serious crime followed these initiatives; so the application of broken windows theory to the problem of urban crime was lauded as a success.12 Research and debate about the broken windows theory continues unabated and with some heat. Critics argue that the decreases in crime rate in New York

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journal Public Opinion Quarterly (1965, Volume 29, pages 437–438). 12The article, titled “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” that “broke” the news of broken window theory was published in The Atlantic Monthly (March, 1982 by James Wilson and George Kelling. In part, their theory was based on earlier work by Philip

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by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

feel unsafe and made some people believe they could get away with more serious and violent crimes.[162] This idea came to be called the “broken windows theory,” and it influenced a new trend in policing that emphasized stopping those minor offenses as a way of preventing more serious crime. This was combined

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/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron; Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Key Facts at a Glance: Homicide Rate Trends.” BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 161 For more on broken windows theory and proactive policing, see George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” Atlantic, March 1982, https://www.theatlantic.com

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