Can "Broken Windows" Theory be More Empirical?: Revisit it From Spatial and Temporal Perspectives

• In Event: Exploring Theoretical Explanations of Crime

Abstract

The present study aims to reexamine the direct relationship between minor offenses and serious crimes, based on which it also analysis the police accountabilities to deal with “small things” in the neighborhood to improve the neighborhood quality of life. It suggested since the relationship between minor things (offenses) and neighborhood crime are varied, three models should be applied to categories the social disorder policing: the pre-active model of disorder policing; model of supervision in disorder policing and model of liaison in disorder policing.

Author

• Di Jia, Sam Houston State University