Illusion of Order
Subtitle: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674015906
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Criminology; Social Science / Criminology
First sentence: In July 1994, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner William Bratton began implementing an order-maintenance policing strategy emphasizing proactive and aggressive enforcement of misdemeanor laws against quality-of-life offenses such as graffiti writing, loitering, public urination, public drinking, aggressive panhandling, turnstile jumping, and prostitution.