“In communities where both people and buildings appear disorderly, the visual message that the community is out of control may attract more serious crime. This may happen by a spiral of increasing fear of crime among conventional people, who use the area less and thus provide less informal control. Communities that deteriorate in this respect over time are observed to suffer increased rates of violence.”I really like this one and there's a lot of truth in that.
Lawrence W. Sherman
Monday, May 18, 2009
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