SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Compact Car, Google Earth, Perfect Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Leads to lower crime rates but: measurement challenges and opportunities, identifying the mechanism at work what is it about broken windows that is leading to lower crime rates, implications and policy concerns. Systematic measurement of physical and social disorder. Evaluated whether or not social and physical disorder had an impact on low levels of crime. Modest success: satellite images from google earth newer method still issues, but just another tool at our disposal. What are the advantages of either one of these: allows us to code smaller areas particular intersection, alleyway, building, etc. Crime/disorder and serious crime: ecological advantages are required offenders want to see very specific conditions for committing crime, not necessarily physical and social disorder. What gives: given this critique, and the fact that we see crime rates dropping with the implementation of broken windows policing what can explain this, theoretically. Policing low level social and physical disorder > community engagement > lower crime rates: reality.