The Broken Window Theory And The New York City Anti-Graffiti Act

The thesis is describing the exhibitors of the stock-type horse shows are being influenced by personal and environmental factors when treating the horses inhumanely based off the Social Cognitive Theory. I interpret that the people are being impacted not only by themselves but the people around as well which is affecting how they are treating the horses that they are riding.

Graffiti has been around for more than half a decade and practiced worldwide. However there is debate between whether it is a form of art or vandalism. Graffiti artists’ debate that many do not understand the reason most graffiti artist take the risk of incarceration, fines, injuries, and in some cases death to paint a wall. A graffiti artist can have the simple desire to become recognized, or to create a piece that speaks to their audience as a form of self expression. Because graffiti is associated with gangs and acts of destruction to some many cannot see the history and importance graffiti can have on a worldwide scale. Due to the fact that graffiti is usually produced illegally, meaning it is

Individuals behave differently depending on his or her beliefs and the choices come from the beliefs one holds. This can have a positive or negative effect on one’s environment within his or her control and the environment that affects the human population on Earth. Some environmental conditions that humans do have control over are pollution and crowding, although the rising temperatures and noise pollution may be out of individual reach. By changing some conditions and adding items that have a positive mental influence on individuals can make some over-populated urban environments more pleasant and less stressful to the community and

The article “Report suggests NYPD’s ‘broken windows’ policing doesn’t work” discusses the study and report put together by the Department of Investigation that states that the extensive policing of low-level misdemeanors had no effect on the amount of felony crime. Furthermore, this study also found that broken windows policing also disproportionately impacts minority populations as black, Hispanic, and impoverished communities had much higher rates of misdemeanor arrests and court summonses than white communities.

Denial and ignorance is a common behavior noted in this book. Many times people do not react to what is going on around them, even though they may have a sense of what is going on. Some individuals may walk away from a scene so they don’t have to get caught up and involved. There are also many stereotypes of people of

-A person’s behavior can be influenced by observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influence.

Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

94). Meaning that although LeAlan may personally feel like he didn’t allow his environment to hurt him, it affected his family, his school, and his house. Just one example is no matter how much LeAlan wants to get an education, “there is danger in and around the school” (Jones, et al., 1997, p. 37). That effected his education, the teachers weren’t as willing to go above and beyond, there weren’t as many resources, and therefore his education was not as good as it could have been in another

The Broken Windows theory was created by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling that proposed a metaphor that connects disorder within neighborhoods. This theory believes that police should address these problems that create the neighborhood decay. The image of broken windows represent the relationship that becomes broken when a crime is committed, and nobody cares about how the window looks therefore it is never fixed. The Broken Windows theory increases the crime rate in neighborhoods. There is a link between disorder and crime.

Stop. Look around. Everything around you becomes an integral part of how you live your life. These unique surroundings that encompass individuals possess a power similar to a triggering chemical catalyst which can cause a chemical reaction to happen that normally would not. This power that the surroundings of an individual holds exists in the form of cues and these cues act on the behavior of every individual in society. The cues hold an inherent role on how human behavior is controlled. In Susan Blackmore’s essay “Strange Creatures” she explains the imitative intricacies of how human behavior exists through her meme theory. In a similar attempt to explain behavior, Malcolm Gladwell in his essay “The Power of Context” discusses human behavior from a social perspective through the Broken Windows theory. Individuals control

Jim Crow laws in 19th century post-colonial America consented to the segregation of black and white folks. Graffiti is criminalized as damage to public property that invades the public space, yet Jim Crow signs were regulated by the nation-state and were not considered vandalism. Thereafter, African Americans appropriated racial signage as historical evidence and displaced power from the origins of white production. The pigeons holding signs in protest against the lone bird in the Clacton-on-Sea mural is parallel to racial segregation. In contrast to commercial signage, racial signage was never marketed. Likewise, Banksy’s artwork is not

The general argument made by author Malcolm Gladwell in his work, Power of Context, is that people conform to their environment. More specifically, Gladwell argues that environment is what controls how and why a person reacts to a certain situation. He writes, “The Broken Windows Theory.” In this passage, Gladwell is suggesting that if ones community is poor then people will tend to make poor decisions. In conclusion, Gladwell’s belief is that little tipping points will slowly and effectively change the environment they live in.

Linda Ngo, author of the opinion piece “Graffiti is a Beautiful 'Crime'” (2017), argues that graffiti should be legalized on grounds that it is an artistic expression of free speech. Ngo uses many comparisons between graffiti, which she claims is harmless, to many legal activities that cause people harm. Her purpose in writing this paper is to establish a legal form of graffiti to protect graffiti artists from legal action. Ngo's target audience for this paper is peers who may have different views on graffiti and its purpose.

Moreover, mindset and biases are subject to such factors as gender, religion, language, race and the location of living (Heuer, 1999). In fact, perception of individuals of the various events around them is shaped by such factors. This implies that different people have various mindsets, viewpoints and biases based on the mentioned factors. Indeed, people are quick to judge issues and make general assumptions regarding various situations based on factors that influence their

Throughout one’s life time we encounter many different people whether it is through personal or work related environments. It is important to understand why someone who grew up in a hippie environment may be a little more reserved than an individual who grew up in a strict Amish community, or why an individual who grew up in an environment where they or individuals around them were molested grow up to also be molesters. Environmental Psychology can be applied to so many different factors of day to day living weather it is the way we design our homes or small personal spaces within a larger space such as a cubical at work. Human beings interact and behavior can dictate or contribute to good or bad behavior. The study of environmental psychology helps bridge the