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Right Realist Theories of Crime and Deviance - Wilson
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Last updated 11 Oct 2020
As this video explains, Wilson concluded that the extent to which a community regulates itself has a dramatic impact on crime and deviance. The "broken windows" referred to in the theory’s name is the idea that where there is one broken window left unreplaced there will be many.
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