Thinking About Crime - Hardcover

Wilson, D. L.; Wilson, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465085490 ISBN 13: 9780465085491

Publisher: Basic Books, 1975

Examines the causes and social impact of crime, contemporary attitudes toward and policies promoting criminal justice, and possible preventive programs

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Review:

"[Wilson] was that rare academic whose ideas could be put into action and improve the quality of life...The greatest evidence of his success surrounds us--a resurgent city and thousands of New Yorkers who are alive today because of his radical solution to a tidal wave of crime." --Rudolph Giuliani

"The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century...Elegant in bearing, voracious for learning, eloquent in advocacy and amiable in disputation, Wilson was a prophet honored in his own country." --George F. Will

"In his influential book "Thinking About Crime", as he so often did when thinking, writing or speaking about public policies, James Wilson was able to present his ideas and observations in such a way that they provoked and stimulated thought, debate, and action in new directions. He certainly did that for me throughout my career and this book was just one example."
--Bill Bratton, former Chief of the LAPD and Police Commissioner for the New York City and Boston Police Department

""Thinking About Crime" set the national crime-control agenda for a generation. Conditions have changed since: we have about five times as many people behind bars now as 1975. The debate has changed too. But forty years have not deprived Wilson's thinking of its fine critical edge, or his ideas of their centrality."
--Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

"No one thought more insightfully about crime than James Q. Wilson, and "Thinking About Crime" is a testament to his scholarship on the subject."
--Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly

"[Wilson] was that rare academic whose ideas could be put into action and improve the quality of life...The greatest evidence of his success surrounds us--a resurgent city and thousands of New Yorkers who are alive today because of his radical solution to a tidal wave of crime."
--Rudolph Giuliani

"The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century...Elegant in bearing, voracious for learning, eloquent in advocacy and amiable in disputation, Wilson was a prophet honored in his own country."
--George F. Will
"No one thought more insightfully about crime than James Q. Wilson."
--Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly

"In his influential book "Thinking About Crime", as he so often did when thinking, writing or speaking about public policies, James Wilson was able to present his ideas and observations in such a way that they provoked and stimulated thought, debate, and action in new directions. He certainly did that for me throughout my career and this book was just one example."
--Bill Bratton, former Chief of the LAPD and Police Commissioner for the New York City and Boston Police Department

""Thinking About Crime" set the national crime-control agenda for a generation. Conditions have changed since: we have about five times as many people behind bars now as 1975. The debate has changed too. But forty years have not deprived Wilson's thinking of its fine critical edge, or his ideas of their centrality."
--Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

"[Wilson] was that rare academic whose ideas could be put into action and improve the quality of life...The greatest evidence of his success surrounds us--a resurgent city and thousands of New Yorkers who are alive today because of his radical solution to a tidal wave of crime."
--Rudolph Giuliani

"The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century...Elegant in bearing, voracious for learning, eloquent in advocacy and amiable in disputation, Wilson was a prophet honored in his own country."
--George F. Will
No one thought more insightfully about crime than James Q. Wilson.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly
In his influential book "Thinking About Crime," as he so often did when thinking, writing or speaking about public policies, James Wilson was able to present his ideas and observations in such a way that they provoked and stimulated thought, debate, and action in new directions. He certainly did that for me throughout my career and this book was just one example.
Bill Bratton, former Chief of the LAPD and Police Commissioner for the New York City and Boston Police Department
"Thinking About Crime" set the national crime-control agenda for a generation. Conditions have changed since: we have about five times as many people behind bars now as 1975. The debate has changed too. But forty years have not deprived Wilson's thinking of its fine critical edge, or his ideas of their centrality.
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
[Wilson] was that rare academic whose ideas could be put into action and improve the quality of life.... The greatest evidence of his success surrounds usa resurgent city and thousands of New Yorkers who are alive today because of his radical solution to a tidal wave of crime.
Rudolph Giuliani
The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century.... Elegant in bearing, voracious for learning, eloquent in advocacy and amiable in disputation, Wilson was a prophet honored in his own country.
George F. Will
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Book Description:

"I recommend this book to the President, Attorney General, Congress, police, judges, correctional administrators, and the general public for a succinct review of what our major crime problems are and what the potential solutions may be to deterrence, prevention, law enforcement, and sentencing."-New York Times Book Review

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