Seed: Chaos Begets Chaos - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Jan 09
  

  Terri Karp

  psychology social

• 21 Jan 09
  

  Paul Arthur

  media politics philosophy magazine psychology

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  pianoer

  chaos social

  • Broken window theory (BWT), first proposed by James Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, holds that the presence of disorder — in the form of broken windows, litter, and graffiti — can encourage delinquent behavior.
• 19 Jan 09
  

  Arne Løining

  society psychology

• 11 Jan 09
  

  Royston Robinson

  CABE Built environment Environment Psychology

• 09 Jan 09
  

  Gerhard Stoltz

  norms environment possibility influence annoyance society

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    Broken window theory (BWT), first proposed by James Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, holds that the presence of disorder — in the form of broken windows, litter, and graffiti — can encourage delinquent behavior. BWT promotes a "nip it in the bud" stance toward crime prevention: Fix small problems (like litter) before big problems (like theft) have a chance to occur.

  • ordinary people are in fact more likely to violate rules in situations where other rules — even completely unrelated ones — have already been broken.

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