Questions about the Broken Windows poster

What’s on the Broken Windows poster?

The claim against The evidence, side by side. The claim: Visible disorder signals no one is watching; The claim: Signal invites more serious offending; The claim: Fixing small things prevents large ones; The claim: Wilson and Kelling, 1982, in an essay; The claim: Adopted widely by police forces; The evidence: Crime fell in cities that never adopted it; The evidence: Disorder and crime may share a common cause; The evidence: Sampson and Raudenbush found weak links; The evidence: Order-maintenance policing fell unequally; The evidence: Some place-based trials show modest effects; Contested. Cleaning and repair show more consistent results than aggressive order-mai…. Educational reference, not policy advice. The 1990s crime decline has many competing explanations and no settled account.

Who is the Broken Windows poster for?

Broken Windows belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning crime & deviance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Broken Windows poster?

When a policing strategy is justified by a theory rather than by its evaluation. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Broken Windows belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Broken Windows?

The Dark Figure of Crime, Defining Deviance and Differential Association sit alongside Broken Windows in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Dark Figure of CrimeDefining DevianceDifferential Association

Is the Broken Windows poster free to download and print?

Yes. Broken Windows downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Broken Windows poster print at?

Broken Windows is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Broken Windows loses nothing.Printing guide