If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm ...

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 ...

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 ...

Façade Program now overseeing inspections of high-rise windows has just two staffers — and an average report-processing time of 137 days San Francisco is a town where you can expend so much effort ...

The “broken windows” theory holds that serious crime becomes likelier in environments where petty offences are tolerated.

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 ...

I am sure readers are well conversant with the February 1969 'Time Magazine' study undertaken by Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo where he left two identical cars in two very different ...

Regarding Walter Russell Mead’s “Stale Foreign-Policy Ideas Imperil America” (Global View, Aug. 20): In the 1990s, Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped revive New York City through a “broken-windows” policy, 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 ...