Seed: Chaos Begets Chaos

Popularity Report

Total Popularity Score: 0

Rank

URL Tag Cloud

Groups (0)

Related Lists

Bookmark History

Saved by 6 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-01-09

Terrikarp on 2009-01-31 - Tags psychology , social
Ruthergo on 2009-01-21 - Tags media , politics , philosophy , magazine , psychology
Pianoer on 2009-01-21 - Tags chaos , social
Kropotkin on 2009-01-19 - Tags society , psychology
Gendun on 2009-01-11 - Tags CABE , Built environment , Environment , Psychology

Public Comment

Public Sticky notes

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.

Highlighted by pianoer

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.

Highlighted by jrstoltz

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