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THE ‘BROKEN WINDOWS’ THEORY AND THE NEW YORK EXPERIENCE RECONSIDERED
Author(s) -
Fulda Joseph S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01984.x
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , law and economics , sociology , law , engineering , political science , economics , finance
The undeniable success of order‐maintenance policing (also community policing or broken windows policing) is despite the deficiency in the theory which propelled the practice into policy: Wilson and Kelling's broken windows theory. We discuss what is wrong with the theory and why it nevertheless works when put into practice.