Category: Broken Windows

Broken Windows policing: what it is and what it is not

The Broken Windows theory was fundamentally misunderstood and still is today.” — John Miller There’s a lot of talk about Broken Windows and crime prevention, both good and bad. And the concept features heavily in my book, Back from the Brink. But what does Broken Windows mean? How is it put into practice? How did it…
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QPP 36: George Kelling and Broken Windows

George Kelling passed away on May 15, 2019. Kelling is best known as the (co-)author of Broken Windows, but his legacy is much greater than that. I met George Kelling in 1997 when I took a class from him while I was in the PhD program at Harvard University. In the early 1990s, Kelling described…
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