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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... Harm Principle In Law , Liberty , and Morality , a set of lectures delivered in response to Lord Devlin in 1962 , H. L. A. Hart rehearsed Mill's harm principle but carefully pared the argument down to its original , simple , and ...
... harm principle became the dominant discursive principle used to draw the line between law and morality . The decision to embrace Mill's original simple statement of the harm principle was a powerful rhetorical move . Devlin's writings ...
... theory ( Young 1990 : 149–150 ) . Other municipalities similarly have been presenting evidence of harm . In litigation over the San Diego youth curfew , the city intro- duced evidence , including national and local statistics , to ...
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 |