Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows PolicingHarvard University Press, 2001 M08 15 - 304 pages This is the first book to challenge the "broken-windows" theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. |
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... Skogan relied on surveys that asked neighborhood residents whether they thought that certain physical and social disorders - such as litter or vandal- ism - were a problem in their neighborhoods . To measure crime , Skogan relied on ...
... Skogan 1987 : 53 ) . Despite his initial caveat , then , Skogan asserts that there is a causal relationship between levels of neighborhood disorder and rates of crime , and so concludes : The evidence suggests that poverty , instability ...
... Skogan does with regard to victimiza- tion , using only the robbery victimization variable and therefore nar- rowing his study to only thirty available observations ( Skogan 1990 : 73– 75 ; see also Skogan 1987 : 50-53 ) . The result is ...
Contents
Part Empirical Critique | 57 |
Policing Strategies and Methodology | 91 |
Theoretical Critique | 123 |
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Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing Bernard E. Harcourt Limited preview - 2005 |
Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing Bernard E. Harcourt No preview available - 2005 |