RT Article
T1 Clandestine Dumpsites and Crime in Mexico City: Revisiting the Broken Windows Theory
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 71
IS 8
SP 2891
OP 2921
A1 Massa, Ricardo
A1 Fondevila, Gustavo
A1 Gutiérrez-Meave, Raúl
A1 Bonilla Alguera, Gerardo
A2 Fondevila, Gustavo
A2 Gutiérrez-Meave, Raúl
A2 Bonilla Alguera, Gerardo
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1926663624
AB This paper revisits the broken windows theory with a particular focus on one sign of social disorder: clandestine dumpsites. To explore whether these are predictors of different types of crimes at a neighborhood level, two classification methods were used. Results suggest that clandestine dumpsites have a high predictive capacity for the crimes of dispossession, property damage, house robbery, vehicle theft, and robbery, and have almost none for environmental crimes or robberies of businesses. It is suggested that clandestine dumpsites should be the object of a comprehensive public policy that, in addition to reducing or eliminating the associated health and environmental risks, seeks to reconstitute the social fabric and motivates the long-term recovery of the public space.
K1 Mexico City
K1 classification methods
K1 clandestine dumpsite
K1 Broken Windows
DO 10.1177/00111287231186083