Space, Place and (Broken) Windows

Crime and Deviance:

Spatial criminology asks whether it’s possible to reduce crime by changing social spaces.

This short film featuring Dr Steven Taylor, begins with Zimbardo’s influential abandoned cars experiment and the development of Wilson and Kelling’s broken windows theory. 

It looks at the impact of broken windows policy on the reduction of crime in New York in the 1990s and concludes by looking at recent experiments in the Netherlands by Kees Keizer that demonstrate the effect of environmental change on crime.