Broken windows can be explained more easily with an example. A house is abandoned in a city/suburb and children throw a rock through a window of the house, Broken Windows states that that house will now become a crime hub, it will attract more criminals as the house falls apart, eventually becoming a crime hotspot crime. Now, I find this to be especially true, the broken windows theory was put into practice near my hometown a few years ago. When I was younger, my friends went to a place in the Catskills, it was high-rise apartments, cheap living for those who needed it. These apartments were called hop-o-nose, they are known locally as the ghetto in my area. They wanted to buy illegal substances (marijuana and alcohol) and knew someone there. Now there is a large amount of dilapidated buildings around the hop-o-nose and this is where they met a person to do it. This is not the only case, I had a friend who moved to Hop-o-nose and because of his peer groups, he got into drugs and started hanging out with groups of bad people. Now, that area is not a place you want to go at night, it's basically a crime hub, there are 2 abandoned warehouses that have been vandalized and they are a crime hub at this point. Personally I don't think it's the acrobats who cause the crime, but it's the abandoned buildings around them that cause the crime. If the warehouses were renovated or bought and demolished and something else more useful was built, the world's crime rate would plummet.