The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed ...

“Broken windows” policing, for example, led to the famously video-recorded death of Eric Garner, an unarmed Staten Island man whom police were trying to arrest for peddling untaxed cigarettes.

John D. Halamka uses law enforcement's broken window theory in his IT organization.

If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm ...

The broken window fallacy suggests that an event can have unforeseen negative ripple effects if money is redirected to repairing broken items rather than to new goods and services.

But much as broken-windows policing reduces the levels of more serious crimes by signaling an intolerance for minor offenses, uncovering and stopping low-level spending frivolities will have a ...

Broken Windows The police and neighborhood safety by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling In the mid-l970s The State of New Jersey announced a "Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Program," designed to ...