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Title: Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing by Bernard E. Harcourt ISBN: 0-674-00472-8 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good topic, bad writing
Comment: Providing an abundance of evidence that many academics can't write, Harcourt displays his lack of talent in Illusion of Order. That said, the topic is fascinating and his critique of "broken windows" policing is blistering. Read it for the substance; just be prepared to wade through the pretty awful style.
Rating: 1
Summary: Volume Demonstrates Why Academics Are So Often Disregarded
Comment: (1) Speaking as a former police supervisor, criticisms of the "Broken Windows" Theory of policing are often well taken. Unfortunately, Bernard Harcourt couches his oppositional views in a rambling, inefficiently written academese. Concise, telling points are few. The bibliography is decent. (2) Timothy Lynch's "'We Own the Night' Amadou Diallo's Deadly Encounter with New York City's Street Crimes Unit" makes a much more effective argument in only 8 pages. (Cato Institute Briefing Papers #56). George Kelling, the National Institute of Justice, and the New York Office of the Attorney General have all produced shorter, precise, and much more telling analyses of some of the pros and cons of Broken Windows doctrine.
Rating: 1
Summary: Look at author before you look at book.
Comment: I finally finished this book, but it wasn't easy. While Mr. Harcourt tries to show that New York (and other cities) is not any safer than it was before the Mayor began his programs I have to say it just doesn't wash. He uses the one thing to try and prove his point that just wont work and that is his own opinion. When you live in a world when all you have ever done is work in and around colleges/schools you lose a grip on the real world. Much like other "Professional Writers and/or Professors" Mr. Harcourt has watched too many liberal TV reports and read the Village Voice to often. The Cops make mistakes, but when crime rates all over the US are going down and many departments are following the Broken Windows Theory something must be working.
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Title: Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles, James Q. Wilson ISBN: 0684837382 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Critical Issues In Crime and Justice by Albert R. Roberts ISBN: 0761926860 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 02 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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Title: The Crime Drop in America by Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman ISBN: 0521797128 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court by Malcolm M. Feeley ISBN: 0871542552 Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Breaking Away from Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline by Ralph B. Taylor ISBN: 0813397588 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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