Broken Windows, Informal Social Control, and Crime: Assessing Causality in Empirical Studies

Causality in Social Studies Education

Enticing Arsonists with Broken Windows and Social Disorder

In criminology, it is well understood that indicators of urban decay, such as abandoned buildings littered with broken windows, provide criminals with signals identifying neighborhoods with lower crime detection and apprehension rates than better maintained neighborhoods. Whether it is the resident population’s sense of apathy, lack of civic pride, or fear of confrontation that causes criminals...

Assessing the impact of police order maintenance units on crime: An application of the Broken Windows Hypothesis

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Making Sense of Broken Windows: the Relationship between Perceptions of Disorder, Fear of Crime, Collective Efficacy and Perceptions of Crime

Title of Document: MAKING SENSE OF BROKEN WINDOWS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS OF DISORDER, FEAR OF CRIME, COLLECTIVE EFFICACY AND PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME Joshua Conard Hinkle, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor David Weisburd Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice The broken windows thesis has had a profound impact on policing strategies around the world. The thesi...

Social Structure and Informal Social Control in Rural Communities*

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social structure and crime in rural counties of the United States. Social structures are assumed to be associated with informal control of crime, and as well, it is assumed that structural changes in rural communities influence changes in the level of informal social control of crime, hence, crime itself. Social disorganization th...