Posted on 11/23/2008 4:29:39 PM PST by Ozob
A place that is covered in graffiti and festooned with rubbish makes people feel uneasy. And with good reason, according to a group of researchers in the Netherlands. Kees Keizer and his colleagues at the University of Groningen deliberately created such settings as a part of a series of experiments designed to discover if signs of vandalism, litter and low-level lawbreaking could change the way people behave. They found that they could, by a lot: doubling the number who are prepared to litter and steal.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
So permissiveness and bad environments fosters criminal growth. Amazing.
Charge and convict every last one of the gay marriage brown-shirts that terrorize and victimize others. Don’t let them think they can get away with it, or we’ll have more of the same.
The broken window theory has always made sense to me. The more run down something gets the more you feel that it harbors elements you don’t want to be around. UN PC but true.
Captain Obvious strikes again.
Nothing better proves this than sanctuary cities that tolerate illegal immigrants. First a few, then a lot more, because they know it’s acceptable. And all the crime they bring with them gets amplified - DUI, driving without a license, petty crime, etc.
Wrong. It makes decent people feel uneasy. Graffiti and filth make bad people feel more comfortable. If you want to move lowlife criminals out of an area quickly, have a children's fair - parents, kids, pets - scum will run like the wind...
It surprises me that the ponces at the Economist would run this story.
Katie will skip over this story.
Don’t be silly, it’s a well known fact that arresting more criminals, punishing them harder, building more prisons, hiring more police, targeting small scale offenders as well as the big ones, using statistics to investigate where crimes are happening and then sending more police there have no effect whatsoever in the reduction of crime, none.
It’s abortion that brings down crime you see, I know I read it in a book.
Excellant point.
Actually a good book to read about the broken window effect is called “The tipping Point” by Malcom Gladwell. Though he is a Staff Writer for the New Yorker he is not biased. His writing is logical and well researched. Good business reading based on caused and effect.
Don’t mean to advertise his book but ever sense I have turned off the TV, I have been reading books to help me improve my understanding of stuff.
I need to read more books. I used to, I’ve gotten lazy! Thanks, I’ll see if I can find it!
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