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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... values actually plague all of the studies and all of the rel- evant variables to different degrees , as evidenced in Table 3.2 . As this table reflects , the data are missing values , on average , for between 30 and 40 percent of the ...
... values that are available - which raises another problem discussed later . Aggregation , however , does not resolve the problem of missing values . It is equally difficult to disregard the observations where crime vic- timization data ...
... values , I propose to standard- ize these twelve variables on their respective means . 16 This avoids the problem of bias resulting from missing values ( discussed earlier ) . It is , of course , impossible to determine what the missing ...
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 |