When one drives through a neighborhood what do you expect to see? What is anticipated is to see beautiful homes, clean cut lawns, and what can be perceived as a safe living environment. However, if one was to see the opposite would they assume that the neighborhood has a higher rate of crime or that it is potentially less protected? The Broken Windows Theory relates a similar conjecture. This theory was proposed in 1982 by a social scientist named James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. The Broken Windows Theory uses broken windows as a connection to disorder and incivility in a neighborhood to an increase in crimes. Before the advancement and execution of different incivility speculations, for example, broken windows. Wilson and Kelling took
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However, growing up in the vast urban city of Miami, FL as a whole it could not be defined as a broken windows city. For Miami as a whole is well known as a significant center and leader in business, media, international trade, entertainment, culture, and the arts. In 2008, Forbes magazine positioned Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its annual great air quality, tremendous green spaces, clean roadways, clean drinking water, and citywide recycling programs. Nonetheless, this does not mean that certain neighborhoods in Miami would be discluded from the theory. Even though some neighborhoods may favor more of the common stereotype Miami is known for, not all neighborhoods are filled with such class. Driving down the streets some areas may appear to in fact include abandoned houses, houses with broken windows, and buildings filled with artistic graphiti of different variations. The rates of crime in Miami associated in these neighborhoods also relate some surprising facts. To list a few, the annual crimes that are related to violence are 4,497, those related to property roll in at about 19,304, and the chances of becoming a victim of a crime in Miami is 1 in 98. With that being said not every city may be considered a “Broken Windows City” but the theory does not go un used in areas that it is needed the most helping cities around the U.S
However, growing up in the vast urban city of Miami, FL as a whole it could not be defined as a broken windows city. For Miami as a whole is well known as a significant center and leader in business, media, international trade, entertainment, culture, and the arts. In 2008, Forbes magazine positioned Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its annual great air quality, tremendous green spaces, clean roadways, clean drinking water, and citywide recycling programs. Nonetheless, this does not mean that certain neighborhoods in Miami would be discluded from the theory. Even though some neighborhoods may favor more of the common stereotype Miami is known for, not all neighborhoods are filled with such class. Driving down the streets some areas may appear to in fact include abandoned houses, houses with broken windows, and buildings filled with artistic graphiti of different variations. The rates of crime in Miami associated in these neighborhoods also relate some surprising facts. To list a few, the annual crimes that are related to violence are 4,497, those related to property roll in at about 19,304, and the chances of becoming a victim of a crime in Miami is 1 in 98. With that being said not every city may be considered a “Broken Windows City” but the theory does not go un used in areas that it is needed the most helping cities around the U.S