The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed to ...

Crime continues to be a top concern for millions of Americans, and for good reason. In some of the largest U.S. cities, an increase in gang violence, including among young people, is driving the ...

The NYPD's commitment to Broken Windows policing, the disarmingly simple idea that serious crimes are more likely to occur in disorderly environments than orderly ...

Although I commend Lucy Lannotti offering an opinion on the Broken Windows Theory of policing, her commentary and understanding of this framework fall well short (“Blame our broken criminal justice ...

In 1982, criminologists James Wilson and George Kelling introduced the “broken windows theory” in criminal justice. They argued that small signs of neglect, like a broken window, could signal disorder ...

Twenty-first-century policymakers profess a deep commitment to “public health,” and they now apply the concept to the problem of violent crime in cities. When Joe Biden took office as president in ...

Though he didn't consider it a "great literary moment in my life," that isn't stopping folks today from remembering James Q. Wilson for his seminal 1982 analysis of urban crime for The Atlantic. ''I'm ...