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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... interpretive social theory . This has important implications for meth- ods of proof . The very question of proof is rendered , though not im- possible , certainly more complicated . In contrast to proof in the con- text of a more ...
... interpretive turn also calls for a methodology that recognizes , among other things , the important role of the researcher in formu- lating and building structures of representation within which events have meaning . It calls for a self ...
... interpretive element of the norm - focused hypothesis that yields predictive knowledge . Although the " social meaning turn " may not originally have been intended to be predictive ( Geertz 1973 : 14 ) , social meaning plays a ...
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 |