The Stanford Prison Experiment: The Broken Window Theory

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.” (Atwood 231). She agreed because she knew it was risky and she did not care because it seemed odd. This leads to her having fun breaking rules because she does not know where she is going with the Commander and likes odd surprises. Strict leadership can cause rebellious acts among the people of the totalitarian government, also the leader can commit rebellious acts too. The Republic of Gilead can relate to other governments as well.

When asked the question, “Are you aware that alcohol is a factor in many cases of violence,” he states, “Yes, but that’s not my fault.” Lou Dempsey also failed the experiment of conducting compliance checks. In Jerry Newman’s affidavit, he said that their crew sent in decoys into Mr. Dempsey’s store to examine whether or not he checked for identification for being under the age of 21. These checks are sent out each month and Lou Dempsey’s store failed two of the tests. When this happens the police staff suggests a beverage server training for the owner. Dempsey took no interest in the training.

Liberty Mutual creates an ad to persuade viewers to switch to their insurance. The first rhetoric technique used is pathos when Liberty Mutual says, “You totaled your brand new car. Nobody’s hurt, but there will still be pain.” People have either been in an accident and understand the emotions involved, or they have not and worry about what will happen in an accident. The emotional response is fear over the rising payments, and regret over being in an accident. They then combine logos with pathos by stating, “It comes when your insurance company says they’ll only pay three quarters what it takes to replace it [the car].

or the more exciting option, it has never been asked because there has always been an alternative that has been blindly accepted. As the authors put it, if you can ask something that overturns conventional wisdom, you’re onto something. Chapter Four- Where Have All the Criminals Gone? “The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn’t fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it’s all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.” (Levitt/Dubner-127) If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. This seems to be a fairly widely accepted fact.

If thieves see a chance to easily steal something, they will not think twice about it and have zero guilt because in their minds. For example, if they steal a bicycle from a front porch they will blame the owner for leaving it outside and think the person deserved to have their bike stolen. Boba and Santos wrote an article about theft and mentioned that thieves calculate risk versus reward (2008). That applies directly to this situation. If someone were home at the time, the theft would have never occurred because the risk level would be too high.

In order to function as an independent human being, individuals need to hold on to their internal selves. External environment influences individuals’ thoughts and behaviors. For example, Gladwell argues “ [i]f a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon more windows will be broken, and sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street” (152). If “no one cares” that a window has been broken and no one faces any consequences, people start to assume they are allowed to continue and repeat the action.

I saw that our gas lamp had been crushed by a fallen branch and gas was leaking into the air. We’re lucky that there wasn’t a fire, or else our house would have been gone for sure. The tornado looked like it had just eaten up the trees surrounding our home. Since there was no visible damage to the house, my father and I went in to the powerless house to rest from the grueling five hour trip that we had just endured. The next morning, my father and I started clean up process and cleared the driveway of any fallen

Since Adam Petty’s unfortunate accident many people have had numerous concerns about the safety of all drivers, although Adam Petty’s deaths were definitely not the one to make people ponder the safety. Way before Adam Petty there was a lot of deaths that decrease throughout the years but gave many concerns to safety marshalls, and spectators.”History tells us that it often takes tragic incidents to make people stop and think. "(Jenkins) This comment made by Nick Harvey, Team Manager for the PPI Motorsports Winston Cup Team, is very true, because if there were no deaths or injury in the sport then you would continue on the same path until something does happen. These deaths made people stop and think what could be done differently to avoid a death or avoid being badly injured in a

About 9,000 firearms deaths and 12,000 stabbings. So people who wanna kill others that bad aren’t gonna be stopped by telling them what they are doing is bad considering that 75% percent of shooters killed the self or had suicide by cop. So they don’t care because the law isn’t gonna affect them if they are dead which they usually intend to happen. Here's something else to get your brain thinking, Eric’s mom knew about his gun purchases and explosive purchases, she just did nothing. He came from an upper class family where everything was given to him without any effort on his side since day one.

Opportunity makes the Theft Opportunity is one of the elements of crime for it to occur. It is the cause of all crime to happen. There’s no occurrence of crime if there will be no physical opportunity to bring it out. Whatever ones want to do something, one cannot commit a crime without overcoming its physical requirements. At the same time, many people from broken family have never committed crimes, and many people from good families have become active offenders.

Four days after a local car dealer got in touch with the homicide squad; informing them that, they recently sold a black SUV to Sarah. Sarah had fail to make payments, and that the car was a 2006 Pontiac Torrent. According to the dealer they had reposes the SUV and Sarah stoled it back from the dealer, and disable the GPS. The team is now searching for William, Sarah, and the car. After, searching for the car and both Sarah and William the detectives finally find the SUV and Sarah; this is 10 days later.

The draft excluded the kidnapping, mugging, and prostitutes making the budget five hundred thousand dollars. The first mission that to Watergate by Liddy’s team was undetected and unsuccessful. The second break-in which became to be known as the Water gate break-in was meant to fix the bugs from the first break-in. Before the break-in Liddy told his team “that Magruder wanted to learn whatever derogatory information O’Brien had about CREEP.”(39)

This made people think they couldn 't be hurt by one. On the day of the hurricane the island flooded and Isaac told people to stay in their homes, but almost all the houses collapsed. When Isaac figured out the storm was a hurricane, he tried to warn as many people as possible, which saved a lot of people. I believe that Isaac was both a hero and too slow to react. He was too slow to react when he didn 't know that it was a hurricane until a few hours before and told people things that got them killed.

This eliminates Samuel Schmidt from committing the crime because he could not have broke the glass from the inside. Another piece of evidence that we have gathered was that the hotel room was over checked. If the maid had decided to go ahead and steal the necklace, she would of have a better idea of where the necklace was, and most likely would of cleaned up all of the evidence.

Throughout the years it has been seen how Narcos have been taking over the lives of innocent people in the city of Mexico. Authorities have not even bothered on setting up an investigation, because it is believed they were involved in the incident as well. Narcos are known for buying over law enforcement, and if the president doesn’t do anything to stop these inhumane people, then when we least know it, it will take over the government itself, and the people of Mexico city will be in a risk of more danger than they already are. The incident of the article is based mainly on the government being part of the 43 disappeared students. The Narcos are mentioned because the mayor’s wife has a brother who is a Narco that might have a connection to the missing students.