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Accountability taking personal responsibility for one’s own choices and for the results of those choices to oneself and to others.

Autonomy ability to govern oneself and to initiate one’s own activity.

Behaviorism a theory of human behavior originally put forward by Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner that posits individuals are conditioned through “operant conditioning” to respond to various stimuli.

Broken windows theory theory of criminal behavior offered by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling: “Crime is the inevitable result of disorder”; that is, broken windows left unrepaired lead to more broken windows which in turn create an invitation to criminals to commit more serious crimes.

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