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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Broken windows"”.
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Less Debate, More Analysis: A Meta-Analysis of Literature on Broken Windows Policing
In their broken windows thesis, Wilson and Kelling (1982) propose that social and physical disorder leads to a breakdown in informal social controls, thereby allowing more serious crime to occur. This framework had a tangible impact on policy, though research has shown mixed results with regard to …
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Broken Windows and Shattered Trust: Analyzing the Geospatial Disparities in Law Enforcement Interactions
<p>The New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk policy is a contentious crime prevention strategy that has increased the mistrust and perceived antagonism between the police department and the community. The objective of this policy is to stop, question, and potentially frisk …
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Broken windows and dancing bodies: Politics of movement in New York City’s salsa scene
Within this thesis, I explore various facets of New York City’s salsa scene. I first examine the political history of cabaret laws in New York City throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, and demonstrate that these laws had drastic impacts on marginalized populations within the city. …
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THE IMPACT OF DISORDER ON FEAR OF CRIME: A TEST OF THE FIRST LINK OF BROKEN WINDOWS
The broken windows hypothesis (Wilson and Kelling, 1982) suggests that disorder causes fear of crime to increase in a community, starting a chain of events that eventually leads to an increase in crime in the neighborhood. This thesis aims to improve our knowledge of the relationship between …
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicide and Dangerous Buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
… activities theory, rational choice theory, broken windows and disorder theory, crime pattern and environmental criminology, and social disorganization and collective efficacy theory all suggest the potentiality of a correlation between the presence of abandoned and dilapidated housing and …
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Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization
… interrelated research questions: How widely did “broken windows” policing, with its emphasis on misdemeanor arrests, diffuse? Do police make more stops and arrests in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification? Do local governments experiencing revenue shortfalls cut their criminal justice functions …
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Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City
… tip-based livelihoods, an e-bike ban and broken windows policing, and unsafe streets designed for drivers. I approach this research through participatory action research (PAR) and <em>han</em>, an indigenous Korean word that describes collective transgenerational traumas that are rooted in …
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The Ford Foundation and the Reinvention of American Liberalism, 1968-2000
… of two key components: Firstly, a commitment to ‘broken windows’ policing - an aggressive strategy of law- enforcement that argued the police should focus their attention on low-level ‘disorder’. And secondly, an embrace of public-private partnerships to revive distressed communities through a …
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The Impact of Utilitarian Public Policies on Minority Communities: A Comparison of New York City and New South Wales, Australia.
… good for the greatest number. Through examining “Broken Windows Policing” enacted in New York City in the 1990s as well as the New South Wales Law Enforcement Act of 2002, I show that the moral framework outlined in utilitarianism can have serious negative consequences not only for people who are …
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Investigating Defensible Space and the Criminogenic Capacity of Characteristic British Housing Designs
… and milieu' is underpinned, in addition to the 'Broken Windows' theory of Wilson and Kelling (1982). It is established that design, per se, is not the definitive explanatory factor for criminality. Rather, it is the crucial socio-economic and demographic associations attached to these designs …
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The governance of security in the revanchist city- The case of Cape Town, South Africa
… ideas are policing strategies such as the ‘broken windows syndrome‘ (Kelling and Wilson, 1982) and ‘zero tolerance policing‘ (Giuliani and Bratton, 1994; Beckett and Herbert, 2008; Herbert and Beckett, 2010). However, the role of private security companies in the reclaiming of public space …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
Homelessness rates in the United States have continually increased over the past thirty years. The financial crisis of 2008 has created a ripple effect of unemployment, foreclosures, and an increased presence of homelessness in cities across the country. This increased presence of homelessness has …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
Homelessness rates in the United States have continually increased over the past thirty years. The financial crisis of 2008 has created a ripple effect of unemployment, foreclosures, and an increased presence of homelessness in cities across the country. This increased presence of homelessness has …
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Health risk differentials: implications of neighborhood conditions on various health outcomes in New Orleans, 2004-2009
… of mosquito breeding sites. Based upon the Broken Windows theory, spatial variables describing physical and socioeconomic neighborhood characteristics hypothesized to influence the density of unattended pools in the study area were identified to answer the following core research questions: …