Broken Windows¶
Wilson, J. Q., & Kelling, G. L. (1982). Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety. The Atlantic Monthly, 249(3), 29-38.
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Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Broken Windows Theory
- The original Wilson–Kelling framing carries heavy normative and institutional baggage — it is a named policy theory built around enforcement — but the underlying tipping-point signal loop is what recurs across substrates.
This sourceOriginal statement that visible unrepaired disorder signals weakened enforcement and invites higher-level offending, framed as a policing theory.
- The original Wilson–Kelling framing carries heavy normative and institutional baggage — it is a named policy theory built around enforcement — but the underlying tipping-point signal loop is what recurs across substrates.
- Eyes On The Street
- In community governance, neighbourhood watch, porch culture, and third places instantiate it, and the Broken Windows critique inverts it: visible neglect signals the absence of eyes and recruits further disorder.
This sourceArgues visible neglect signals the absence of watching eyes and recruits further disorder — the inverse of eyes-on-the-street.
- In community governance, neighbourhood watch, porch culture, and third places instantiate it, and the Broken Windows critique inverts it: visible neglect signals the absence of eyes and recruits further disorder.
Mechanisms¶
- Vocabulary Drift Audit
- Catching small deviations before they normalize is the whole game, the design equivalent of the broken-windows intuition that unrepaired small disorder invites larger disorder.
This sourceArgues that visible, unrepaired disorder signals that no one cares and can invite further disorder and more serious misconduct.
- Catching small deviations before they normalize is the whole game, the design equivalent of the broken-windows intuition that unrepaired small disorder invites larger disorder.
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