There was an empty lot in a middle-class neighborhood, maintained by a nearby re

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There was an empty lot in a middle-class neighborhood, maintained by a nearby resident. That man moved away, and within a few weeks several bags of garbage and some old furniture were sitting in the lot. Then an old car was parked in the lot and teenager started to gather there to drink beer and hang out. Within a few months, there was a mugging by the lot and the police made a handful of arrest for drug dealing there. This series of events is an illustration of what theory? There was an empty lot in a middle-class neighborhood, maintained by a nearby resident. That man moved away, and within a few weeks several bags of garbage and some old furniture were sitting in the lot. Then an old car was parked in the lot and teenager started to gather there to drink beer and hang out. Within a few months, there was a mugging by the lot and the police made a handful of arrest for drug dealing there. This series of events is an illustration of what theory?

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it is an illustration of broken windows theory

it is a criminological theory that uses broken windows as a metaphor for disorder within neighbourhoods.

it was described by Wilson and Kelling

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