James Q. Wilson Changes Policing in America
June 10, 2013
A police officer stands guard outside of John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts on May 1, 2013.
Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English.
Today, we are talking about political and social scientist James Q. Wilson. Wilson was interested in a great many subjects. But he was best known for his research into the behavior of criminals and police. He helped change the way policing is done is America.
Wilson died in March 2012 at the age of eighty. He had been receiving treatment for leukemia.
James Q. Wilson in 1972James Q. Wilson in 1972
This week on our program Bob Doughty and Faith Lapidus look back at Wilson’s influence on modern policing. They also look at some of the ways technology is leading law enforcement into the future.
In March 1982, the Atlantic magazine published an article that described a theory of community policing. That theory would come to influence a new direction in American law enforcement.
James Q. Wilson wrote the article with criminologist George Kelling. Crime and disorder in a community are usually linked, they said, and they used an example. "Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in rundown ones," they wrote.
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