Why is crime such a large part of our everyday society? Since the beginning of time, crime has been a large part of history, which gradually increased throughout the years, and continues today in everyday life. Crime is something that is caused by either force, impulse, fun, accident, or environmental factors. Some people have been raised since childhood in areas where crime rates were at a high and this may have compelled them to follow a negative figure, thus resulting in that person committing crimes. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime, mentions how key concepts shape the way in which crimes are performed through an individual’s involvement with his or her environment and
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The Broken Window theory is created by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Keeling. Wilson and Keeling said broken windows are analogous to cleaning up crime in neighborhoods by accepting the inevitable result of disorder. The Broken Window theory states that if a window is broken in a society that is heavily populated with crime and not replaced immediately, people who see the house with the broken window will think that no one cares about it. This will cause other crimes to be created because a sense of uprising will start to spread in the society. The trend will stop to spread after the first window gets repaired and this will cause all of the other houses to gradually get their windows fixed too. Similarly, Gladwell says that once a crime occurs, more crimes will occur and they will gradually increase until there is healing in the community. Once the community and the law enforcement come together, the “broken windows” will be repaired and essentially there would be a decline in crimes. It also helped NYC crime rates reach an all- time low. David Gunn, the NYC subway director from the 1980’s was hired to implement the Broken Windows theory on the graffiti problem on the subway carts. His plan was to allow the criminals to graffiti “dirty” subway carts that were not in service. These carts were then placed in a train yard and in a span of 3 days, the police would come in and paint over the graffiti. Gladwell uses the term “Broken windows” to compare a simple and broad topic to a complex idea so that the readers could relate to . And the complex idea of the “Broken Windows” theory helped solve minor crime rates by reducing vandalism in NYC in the late
The Broken Window theory is created by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Keeling. Wilson and Keeling said broken windows are analogous to cleaning up crime in neighborhoods by accepting the inevitable result of disorder. The Broken Window theory states that if a window is broken in a society that is heavily populated with crime and not replaced immediately, people who see the house with the broken window will think that no one cares about it. This will cause other crimes to be created because a sense of uprising will start to spread in the society. The trend will stop to spread after the first window gets repaired and this will cause all of the other houses to gradually get their windows fixed too. Similarly, Gladwell says that once a crime occurs, more crimes will occur and they will gradually increase until there is healing in the community. Once the community and the law enforcement come together, the “broken windows” will be repaired and essentially there would be a decline in crimes. It also helped NYC crime rates reach an all- time low. David Gunn, the NYC subway director from the 1980’s was hired to implement the Broken Windows theory on the graffiti problem on the subway carts. His plan was to allow the criminals to graffiti “dirty” subway carts that were not in service. These carts were then placed in a train yard and in a span of 3 days, the police would come in and paint over the graffiti. Gladwell uses the term “Broken windows” to compare a simple and broad topic to a complex idea so that the readers could relate to . And the complex idea of the “Broken Windows” theory helped solve minor crime rates by reducing vandalism in NYC in the late