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Wilson’s book with Richard Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature, broadly probed many of the biological and developmental factors associated with individual criminality. Wilson advocated that constitutional factors may help to explain deviance (Wilson and Herrnstein, 1985). Constitutional factors, as they described, include gender, intelligence, age, temperament, fetal alcohol syndrome and the like. Additionally, Wilson describes constitutional factors as those factors which are usually present at or soon after birth and whose behavioral consequences usually appears during the child’s development. Furthermore, these traits are not necessarily genetic. “Broken Windows” Theory What is the role of the police in a democratic society? Wilson and Kelling reviewed the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment and Zimbardo’s testing of “Broken Windows” theory. Wilson and George Kelling’s 1982 Atlantic Monthly article, Broken Windows followed and provided further impetus in support of the notion that interact
