How Did The Broken Window Theory Influence Crime

They believed that the population shifts influenced crime because of newcomers invading the areas of those who have already been there, dominance was also an issue of establishes who was who and who could do was in neighborhoods, and they used the term succession to define the social organization of an area, with members usually of one typical ethnicity moved into another’s neighborhood. They saw that the crime rates would rise and rise until the invading group eventually became the majority, then after the crime rates would decline. The researched the proximity of manufacturing to crime, they mapped areas of addresses of those of delinquents and measured the distance between the two. They noticed the more they moved out of these crimes related neighborhoods the prevalence rate went down. They also looked at the poverty stricken areas with vacant and condemned homes in the areas, and the rate of crime in the area. They found the relation between the number of vacant homes and crime rates. Next looking at the economic status of an area, and the crime rate. They looked at the number of families receiving assistance from the government, the rental price in the area, and how many homes were owned not rented. There findings showed that poverty stricken areas crime is high. But …show more content…
Wilson and George L. Kelling discuss the Broken Windows theory. They believed that one broken window, lead to many broken windows. They wanted to know why there were high crime rates in inner city neighborhoods. This theory was to help answer that. Those areas of high poverty, and those of with abandoned building, vacant homes, and the area just falling apart there was more crime. He did one study where he put a car in a poverty stricken neighborhood, with the hood up on the car, and doors unlocked. Within ten minutes, people were already beginning to vandalize it. He then himself, went and bashed in the window and after that more people then began to join in and destroy the