> In Western countries, globalization and rapid technological change have dissolved the communities that grew up around industrial centers in the past. As these

> In Western countries, globalization and rapid technological change have dissolved the communities that grew up around industrial centers in the past. As these communities have crumbled, the systems of informal monitoring by neighbors and peers that maintained order within them have ceased to be effective. I've never previously seen someone try to portray early industrial cities as lacking in crime. A strange form of rose colored glasses.