... collective efficacy is need in a community to at least find ways to lower crime. In the 2001 research article, "Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods - Does It Lead to Crime"? "by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush, the research mentions that although there isn't too much correlation with the lowering of crime and broken windows theory, there are aspect of the theory that do ... disorganization of poor communities gives the resident certain signals that trigger carelessness, which in result dissolves most of the collective efficacy in the neighborhood causing more disorder and more c...

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