Illusion Of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing

Bernard E. Harcourt

ISBN 10: 0674004728 / ISBN 13: 9780674004726

Edité par Harvard University Press, 2001

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First edition hardback, 2001, with unclipped jacket. Ex Devon and Cornwall police college library book, only a couple of the usual stamps and labels, no pages removed. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Illusion Of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674004728
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674004726
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Law and Order

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Synopsis

This book challenges the "broken-windows" theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanours, 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 misdemeanour laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly 30 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 "order" and "disorder", which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice - a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that the author argues is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of citizens - come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics through-out the world? This book explores the reasons why.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 "order" and "disorder" which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice-a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens-come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice"