Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

By B. Harcourt. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions (2013, background): “disorder, but Harcourt (2001) found that the crime-disorder relationship did not hold for other crimes, including burglary (housebreaking), assault, rape and pick-pocketing.”
• Behaviour, Preferences and Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Resurgence (2006, background): “Harcourt (2001) refutes the idea that antivagrancy laws contributed meaningfully to falling crime rates, citing instead increased staffing of police forces and the collapse of the crack cocaine market.”
• Bridging the Gap: Understanding Reassurance Policing (2005, background): “Sampson and Raudenbush, along with Harcourt (2001), have questioned the assumptions of ‘broken windows’, finding little evidence of a causal link between disorder and crime.”
• Theorising the Fear of Crime: The Cultural and Social Significance of Insecurities about Crime (2007, unknown): “Harcourt (2001)”