Kan inte låta bli att på temat citat från justice Louis Brandeis, för jag tror att det var Brandeis som jag citerade mer eller mindre översatt i förra postningen, också ta med följande klassiska Brandeis-citat med anledning av JK:s engagemang för en rättvis rättegång (och mot fejkade förundersökningsprotokoll och hemliga infiltratörer):
”Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”
Mårten Schultz. 
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november 29, 2008 den 7:40 f m
Niclas
Mårten: Apropå att brott smittar har en ny nederländsk studie i Science visat på just det. Abstract:
Imagine that the neighborhood you are living in is covered with graffiti, litter, and unreturned shopping carts. Would this reality cause you to litter more, trespass or even steal? A thesis known as the Broken Windows Theory suggests that signs of disorderly and petty criminal behavior trigger more disorderly and petty criminal behavior, thus causing the behavior to spread. This may cause neighborhoods to decay and the quality of life of its inhabitants to deteriorate. For a city government this may be a vital policy issue. But does disorder really spread in neighborhoods? So far there has not been strong empirical support, and it is not clear what constitutes ”disorder” and what may make it spread. In this article, we generate hypotheses about the spread of disorder and test them in six field experiments. We found that when people observe that others violated a certain social norm or legitimate rule, they are more likely to violate even other norms or rules, which causes disorder to spread.
Mer info: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1161405/DC1/1
december 1, 2008 den 1:52 e m
martenschultz
Detta kan jag relatera till som gammal graffare. Det var mycket lättare att spreja på en redan sprejad vägg än en helt ren.