Created with Sketch. According to the broken windows theory, disorder (symbolized by a broken window) leads to fear and the potential for increased and more severe crime. Unfortunately ...

LETTER | In 1982, social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling first proposed the Broken Window Theory while studying criminology in New York City. They observed something fascinating in ...

(It has always been fun.) Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist, reported in 1969 on some experiments testing the broken-window theory. He arranged to have an automobile without license plates ...