Gotham City is common for social problems, deviance, and criminal activities. The poverty, loneliness, homelessness, and lack of structure are coordinated with the characteristics of Gotham. In Gotham, crime is all over, police and government corruption is flourishing and deviance runs the streets of the city. But in Batman’s world he wants to store stability back into the city. While Batman is just a movie, this reflects the city of New York, and gives us a sociological imagination of deviance in an appealing way. Gotham City is a dysfunctional city using the concepts of functionalist theories; we look at how the social structure of the society brings about deviance. That theory is the Broken Window Theory, which basically states, where
