A importância da pequena delinquência

A tese é conhecida: o mau comportamento cívico e a pequena delinquência originam problemas sérios em seguida, donde deverem ser atalhados:

"A PLACE that is covered in graffiti and festooned with rubbish makes people feel uneasy. And with good reason, according to a group of researchers in the Netherlands. Kees Keizer and his colleagues at the University of Groningen deliberately created such settings as a part of a series of experiments designed to discover if signs of vandalism, litter and low-level lawbreaking could change the way people behave. They found that they could, by a lot: doubling the number who are prepared to litter and steal."

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