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Breaking Down How the Broken Windows Theory Promotes Racial Bias
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12:38Now PlayingAmerican social scientist James Q. Wilson and criminologist George L. Kelling wrote an article in the Atlantic in 1982, claiming that social psychologists and cops agreed "that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in rundown ones."
The article introduced the Broken Windows Theory, which concluded that signs of public disorder, like broken windows on a building, litter or even graffiti, were evidence of petty crimes that would eventually lead to more serious crimes like robbery, rape and murder.
Police lieutenant Edwin Raymond joins Aisha Mills on "AMplified" to discuss the theory.
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