Illusion of Order
Subtitle: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: August 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674004726
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Social Science / Criminology; Crime; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of; Law enforcement; Police administration
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.