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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... moral theory , Wilson focuses increas- ing attention on the purported breakdown of morality in the modern age , and the resulting global increase in crime . This is a departure from his earlier writings . In Thinking about Crime , for ...
... morality but today is sneeringly referred to as ' mid- dle - class values ' " ( 1993 : 10 ) . Wilson argues that worldwide moral rela- tivism may contribute to the global increase in crime “ by replacing the belief in personal ...
... morality Mill seems to me to be right " ( 1963 : 5 ) .2 Similarly , in an early essay titled " Moral Enforcement and the Harm Principle ” —an essay which sketched the terrain of his later four - vol- ume treatise The Moral Limits of the ...
Contents
Part Empirical Critique | 57 |
Policing Strategies and Methodology | 91 |
Theoretical Critique | 123 |
Copyright | |
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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 |