Summary Of Power Of Context Gladwell

Why is crime such a large part of our everyday society? Since the beginning of time, crime has been a large part of history, which gradually increased throughout the years, and continues today in everyday life. Crime is something that people do out of either force, impulse, fun, by accident, or their environment. Some people have been raised since childhood in areas where crime rates were at an high and maybe that caused them to follow what they learned while growing up and pursuing crimes as well. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime, mentions how these key concepts shape the way in which crimes are performed through their involvement with their environment and communities.

Each term acts as a stepping stool to show how the environment one lives in is the key factor to increasing crime rates in cities. Even though the term “Power of Context” pops up so late in the essay, it is one of the most important terms. In hinds sight, Gladwell uses the idea of the “Broken Window Theory” from Wilson and Keeling and incorporates it into his own idea, which he named the Power of Context, and for the rest of the essay the term power of context popped up more while the Broken Window theory faded into the dark. Gladwell structures the text, so that power of context is introduced using the Broken Windows theory and every term after just supports his claim that environment is one of the main reasons why crime is so high. The Power of Context helped readers find a source to where some people find the urge to commit crimes, which is the environment they are surrounded by. Each of these big concept terms that Gladwell expresses throughout the essay all have a connecting factor. The terms are connected by their relation to crime. The relations are all different in a way because some deal with how the crime starts and travels, where and when the crime begins, and how to solve the crime at