udes toward 4police services, citizens' fear of crime, police response time, or citizens' satisfaction with police response time" (Kelling, et al, 1974, p. v). More specifically, the Experiment found that those crimes generally thought to be most preventable by patrol activity were unaffected in th context of rate (Kelling, et al, 1974, p. 3).
Most of the theoretical studies devoted to the discovery of ways to reduce crime rates have emphasized one of two gen eral ways to attack the problem. First, there are those theor ies which hold that the underlying causes of anti social behav iors (poverty, injustices perceived or real, and so forth) must be addressed, if the frequency of anti social behaviors, and, thus, the crime rate, is to be reduced by any significant degree (National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Stan dards and Goals, 1973). The thrust of these theories is that by eliminating the underlying causes of anti social behaviors, the behaviors themselves will eit
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