<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Interesting.  There was also an article in The Economist a few weeks ago about a series of  experiments in the Netherlands that reached similar conclusions:<br><br>http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12630201&CFID=48064737&CFTOKEN=30048721<br><br>-Jon<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/20/09, Emil Volcheck <i><volcheck@acm.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Emil Volcheck <volcheck@acm.org><br>Subject: [Discussion] Study of "Broken Windows" theory of crime prevention<br>To: "Charles Village Discussion List" <discussion@charlesvillage.info>, "Charles Village Chat List" <chat@charlesvillage.info><br>Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:27 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hello, neighbors,<br><br>I recommend this story in
 the online edition of the Boston Globe<br>which reports on a study in Lowell, MA that tested the "broken<br>windows" theory of crime prevention using a controlled experiment:<br><br><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/08/breakthrough_on_broken_windows/" target="_blank">http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/08/breakthrough_on_broken_windows/</a><br> .<br><br>--Emil<br><br>-- <br>Emil Volcheck<br><a ymailto="mailto:volcheck@acm.org" href="/mc/compose?to=volcheck@acm.org">volcheck@acm.org</a><br><a href="http://EmilVolcheck.com/" target="_blank">http://EmilVolcheck.com/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discussion mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Discussion@charlesvillage.info" href="/mc/compose?to=Discussion@charlesvillage.info">Discussion@charlesvillage.info</a><br><a href="http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/discussion_charlesvillage.info"
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