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This chapter highlights the broken windows philosophy along with its criticisms. Here we explore the Kelling and Wilson article and the warnings that never made it into most of the writings championing the tenets of the theory. This chapter also focuses on the notion of quality of life offenses—with the example of noise being added to the list which expanded the blanket of arrestable offenses in New York City. This is followed by a look at cop culture to explain some of the things we see as being questionable in their behavior and the theoretical thinking about why they targeted minority communities.
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Newberry, J. (2017). Broken Windows or Breaking Communities. In: Racial Profiling and the NYPD. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58091-3_3
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