 In her speech, White cited a March 1982 "Atlantic" article, espousing law enforcement's "broken windows" concept that theorizes enforcing small, petty crimes—like smashed windows—can prevent bigger crimes.Focusing enforcement attention to these small crimes avoids breeding an environment of indifference to the rules, White said.During her tenure, White had to recuse herself from some of the SEC's biggest enforcement cases as a result of her prior work at Debevoise and that of her husband, John W. White, a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.