SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Broken Windows Theory, Peel Regional Police

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Parnaby

Document Summary

Atlantic book the police and neighbourhood safety. Broken windows thesis less serious crime spirals intro more serious crime when nothing is done about it: community has to get to point where it no longer cares about itself. Toronto 1999 the safe streets act implemented as a form of broken windows prevention. Welsh article argues that broken windows policing appears to lead to lower crime rates: but, there are measurement challenges and opportunities that make it unclear whether this is the broken windows theory at work. Have to find a valid way to systematically measure the presence of disorder. Sso driving up and down streets systematically with cameras on cars to record disorder. We need to code for the presence of these crimes in small areas. Theoretically low-level social and physical disorder supposedly has a connection to community engagement (they care less), and as a result they let crimes escalate.