While crime rates across the nation have plummeted since the early 1990s, this drop was particularly pronounced in New York City. Some people have attributed New York’s crime drop to a “broken windows...

Broken Windows Policing
Introduction:
Crime enforcement effectiveness in contemporary society is based on a wide variety of factors including changes taking place in the environment, support and supervision of police departments, and law enforcement. There are modern ways of transparency and focus on combating and preventing crime in the 21st century world amid significant cuts in the budgets allocated to the law enforcement. In the past, theories of law enforcement, such as the broken windows theory, have proved successful in strengthening community policing, but critics have recently raised concerns about whether it is still useful “(Harcourt, 2005)”. According to "Kelling and Wilson (1982)", combating crime is highly successful by putting great emphasis on common crimes and offenses in order to reinforce poorly established moral and legal norms within society. Prevention of crime has the consequences of growing criminal tendencies within members of a society. In keeping with the growing law enforcement climate and community policing demands, this paper will examine the efficacy of broken windows policing in society's battle against crime.
Comparison of arguments:
"Kelling and Wilson (1982)" and "Harcourt (2005)" hold the view that stresses the importance of group engagement. "Kelling and Wilson (1982)" emphasize that forcing a group member to commit minor offenses and crimes by punishment can in the future cause them to change their behaviours. Similarly, "Harcourt (2005)" observed that to some degree public disorder predicts crime rates, but added that the hypothesis does not describe in a wholesome way the causes and deterrents of criminal activity in the community. The incomplete empirical foundation of broken windows policing stems from the fact that it only affects potential actions for some groups, for example, relative to other classes of female youth. The similarity suggests that the two studies illustrate the same details, but more study is required to explain the relationships that were revealed through the study.
Differences:
"Kelling and Wilson (1982)" noted that law enforcement would concentrate on minor offences and crimes committed in the community because this increases social order rates and decreases levels of crime. As "Kelling and Wilson (1982)" showed, the tactic is being extended to American cities like New York, but the small-scale evidence does not justify leaving the law enforcement against serious crimes. "Harcourt (2005)" discusses the faulty reasoning of "Kelling and Wilson (1982)" who argue that the responsible authorities...