Editing Broken windows theory (section)

===Popular press===
In ''[[More Guns, Less Crime]]'' (2000), [[economist]] [[John Lott (political activist)|John Lott, Jr.]] examined the use of the broken windows approach as well as community- and [[problem-oriented policing]] programs in cities over 10,000 in population, over two decades. He found that the impacts of these policing policies were inconsistent across different types of crime. Lott's book has been [[More Guns, Less Crime#Opposition|subject to criticism]], while [[More Guns, Less Crime#Support|other groups support]] Lott's conclusions.

In the 2005 book ''[[Freakonomics]]'', coauthors [[Steven D. Levitt]] and [[Stephen J. Dubner]] confirm and question the notion that the broken windows theory was responsible for New York's drop in crime, saying "the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk". Levitt had in the ''[[Quarterly Journal of Economics]]'' attributed that possibility to the legalization of abortion with ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', which correlated with a decrease, one generation later, in the number of delinquents in the population at large.<ref name=DonohueLevitt2001>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1162/00335530151144050 |title=The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=116 |issue=2 |pages=379–420 |year=2001 |last1=Donohue |first1=J. J. |last2=Levitt |first2=S. D. |url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf |ssrn=174508 |access-date=2012-06-04 |archive-date=2012-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607014923/http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In his 2012 book ''Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society'', [[Jim Manzi]] writes that of the randomized field trials conducted in criminology, only [[nuisance abatement]] per broken windows theory has been successfully replicated.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bailey |first=Ronald |title=The Science of Policy |publisher=The American Conservative |year=2012 |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-science-of-policy/ |access-date=2018-09-02 |archive-date=2018-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903013323/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-science-of-policy/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Manzi |first=Jim |year=2012 |title=Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society}}</ref>