Broken Windows Theory Applied to Gambling Machines Recent estimates indicate that are millions of American adults, and juveniles who are experiencing compulsive gambling problems. Those numbers are compounded by the loved ones who suffer along with them. If the Broken Window Theory is applied, the effect of gambling’s negative side effects start to spill over into the mainstream of society, or the community in which a gambling problem is present. The broken windows theory …showed first 75 words of 1023 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1023 total…thus eliminating a majority of the negative side effects caused by gambling. So far in the city of Terre Haute, gambling is accepted by the people and the local government to the point of not enforcing laws. The effects caused by gambling will continue to be present, and the police will continue to waste taxpayer’s money on fighting it. Social decay will continue while a machine is present coupled with no complaints by civilians.