Illusion of Order The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

Name: Illusion of Order The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
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ISBN: 9780674015906

ISBN-10: 0674015908

ISBN-13: 9780674015906

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bernard E. Harcourt

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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. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of "law abiders" and "disorderly people" and of…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.17" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Bernard Harcourt is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at University of Chicago.



Acknowledgments



Punishment and Criminal Justice at the Turn of Century



The Order-Maintenance Approach



Empirical Critique



The Broken Windows Theory



Policing Strategies and Methodology



Theoretical Critique



On Disorderly, Disreputable, or Unpredictable People



The Implications of Subject Creation



Rhetorical Critique



The Turn to Harm as Justification



Rethinking Punishment and Criminal Justice



An Alternative Vision



Toward a New Mode of Political Analysis


Notes


Bibliography


Index