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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... strategic interven- tions — including some order - maintenance policing . Operation Cease- fire , for instance , involves a team problem - solving approach to youth firearm violence . A number of different ... Strategies and Methodology • 93.
... strategies , it is simply not enough to fo- cus on the social meaning of prostitution , gang membership , or juve- nile gun possession . We must also ask , first , how our strategies of polic- ing and the mechanisms of punishment ...
... Strategies and Homicide Rates . " Columbia Jour- nal of Law and Social Problems , 33 : 265–318 . Kadish , Sanford H. , and Stephen J. Schulhofer . 1995. Criminal Law and Its Processes , 6th ed . Boston : Little , Brown . Kahan , Dan M ...
Contents
Part Empirical Critique | 57 |
Policing Strategies and Methodology | 91 |
Theoretical Critique | 123 |
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