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28 February 2021 – 05:03 Arthur Goldstuck
Criminologist George Kelling first came up with the “broken window” theory of crime back in 1982, before there was a computer on every work desk and an internet connection in everyone’s hands.
The concept — that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken — was used to turn around the fight against crime in New York, and is now widely embraced. As Kelling put it, “vandalism can occur anywhere once communal barriers … are lowered by actions that seem to signal that ‘no-one cares’,” meaning that looking after the small issues helped prevent the bigger issues…
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