New research challenges 'broken windows theory' of crime prediction
Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 09:30
in Psychology & Sociology
The traditional "broken windows theory" goes that acts of public disorder in neighborhoods—such as graffiti, litter, and abandoned homes—can encourage future crime there. But now research led by Northeastern University assistant professor Daniel T. O'Brien has leveraged Big Data to shed new light on the factors that predict crime in urban neighborhoods.