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Ali Taghinezhad

2015

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On The Role Of First Graffito In The Emergence Of More Vandalism, Ali Taghinezhad Sep 2015

On The Role Of First Graffito In The Emergence Of More Vandalism, Ali Taghinezhad

Ali Taghinezhad

This article focused strictly on how a total number of one hundred collective textual memoranda provoke people to add to previous vandalism in Iranian culture. The study was guided by Wilson and Kellingʼs (1982) theory of Broken Window. In the main, collective written evidence was collected based on Broken Window Theory (BWT) suggesting that signs of disorderly and petty criminal behavior trigger more disorderly and petty criminal behavior, thus causing the behavior to spread. BWT gives no insight into what is and what is not a condition of disorder that will spread. As part of the scrutiny process, this study …