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Are you referring to the broken window fallacy? Never heard it called a theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

Criminology is economics?

Right the economic one, not the unrelated criminology one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Yes that is the same broken window as the fallacy.

So it's famously wrong, not just suddenly discovered to be wrong.

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