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Notes:

Trial of Bernhard Goetz
State of the New York subways in the 1980s
The power of context is the next biggest factor in determining how an epidemic spreads, it explains why syphilis in Baltimore spread more in the summer than it did in the winter and why Paul Revere’s
Afternoon Ride would not have been nearly as well known as Paul Revere’s Midnight ride
Broken Windows theory might explain why crime in New York went down in the 1990s
Crimes of “opportunity”, examples include theft, robberies/break-ins
Graffiti was like an invitation to more crime, a subway director named David Gunn decided that the graffiti must be cleaned up
A new police chief, William Bratton also put the Broken Windows theory to practice by cracking down on fare beating
The police began to crack down on petty crimes, and they noticed that rates for all crimes started to go down
Goetz’s backstory explains why he decided to pull a gun on his muggers
Power of context states that the situation where an event such as a crime occurs, heavily influences the crime itself and other crimes. In other words, the situation matters.
Power of context is determined by little things like the graffiti the subway cars are painted with
The stanford prison experiment was a demonstration of how a situation can be so overwhelming that it changes human behaviour
cheating on a test experiment. Children were given tests and an opportunity to cheat on them. The conclusion was that honesty is not an innate trait, it can be influenced based on context
Typically we would not consider context when we say if a person is honest or dishonest, but in reality, a person’s honesty can depend on the situation
The good Samaritan experiment

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:50 Trial of Bernhard Goetz
2:18 Epidemic in Context of Crimes
3:35 Broken Windows Theory
5:09 How They Fixed NYC Subways
7:25 Stanford Prison Experiment
8:58 Test that Children Cheated On
9:56 Good Samaritan Experiment

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