Do We “See” the Same Thing? An Experimental Look into the Black Box of Disorder Perception

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 534-566

  Yang, Sue Ming ^a   Pao, Chih Chao ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

broken windows thesis; disorder; experiment; perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930511256     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427815580167     Document Type: Article

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