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Author Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Title Illusion of order : the false promise of broken windows policing / Bernard E. Harcourt.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364 H215i    ---  Available
Description x, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Punishment and criminal justice at the turn of the century -- Order-maintenance approach -- Pt. I : Empirical critique -- Broken windows theory ; Policing strategies and methodology -- Pt. II : Theoretical critique -- On disorderly, disreputable, or unpredictable people ; Implications of subject creation -- Pt. III : Rhetorical critique -- Turn to harm as justification -- Pt. IV : Rethinking punishment and criminal justice -- Alternative vision ; Toward a new mode of political analysis.
Subject Crime.
Law enforcement.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Police administration.
ISBN 0674004728

 
    
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