- A poor built environment invites crime because it shows that the residents do not care about the community and/or not observant
- A window is broken in a house, the window is not fixed, people walk by and see this, they start throwing their trash everywhere, people notice the trash and see that no one cares and move to grafifitng that house and the next house and no one covers it, and the crims continue to prg

Broken Windows Theory Explanation

- Crime is geographically concentrated to "hot spots"
- Victimization is affected by architecture and geography
- The Broken windows Theory is one sub-theory from this school of thought

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- Against norms and values of society
- Change causes problems

Explanation of Social Pathology

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

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