George Kelling Public Lecture: To Broken Windows and Beyond: the Big Ideas that Reframed American Policing​

George Kelling Public Lecture: To Broken Windows and Beyond: the Big Ideas that Reframed American Policing​
George Kelling Public Lecture: To Broken Windows and Beyond: the Big Ideas that Reframed American Policing​

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Professor George Kelling

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George L. Kelling is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers and Northeastern Universities, formerly a Fellow at Harvard University, and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. In 1972, he began work on several large-scale experiments in policing: the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. His most familiar publication is in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson. He also published Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, with his wife, Catherine M. Coles. He has regularly consulted with police—most recently with the Milwaukee, Detroit, and New York City Police Departments. Kelling graduated from St. Olaf College (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.S.W.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.).


George L. Kelling is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers and  Northeastern Universities, formerly a Fellow at Harvard University, and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.  In 1972, he began work on several large-scale experiments in policing:  the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. His most familiar publication is in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson.  He also published Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, with his wife, Catherine M. Coles. He has regularly consulted with police—most recently with the Milwaukee, Detroit, and New York City Police Departments. Kelling graduated from St. Olaf College (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.S.W.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.).


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