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Broken Windows
Critical Visual
Essay
Check you Carleton
Email, please..
• Invitation…
Late submissions?
1000 words (approx) & 6
images
Formatting guidelines
Vigilante Vigilante
Assumptions of Broken Windows
Subterranean Values
• Legitimacy, identity, security,
social order…
Reconnaissance Wars
• Propaganda?
Fear of Crime/Liquid Modernity
– Ontological Insecurity
– Militarization of Everyday
Broken Windows
• Essentialist basis upon
which so much
municipal policy is
based
– Recall Valverde’s
comments about
expertise and human
rights…
Broken Windows
Sampson & Raudenbush
• Empirical
• Literature
Cultural stereotypes
Implicit bias & social
meaning of “disorder”
Kelling & Wilson
1982 Broken Windows
• Biography…
People are made up of
“regulars” and “strangers”
What kind of policing and
surveillance does this justify?
Who are “strangers”
Kelling & Wilson
1982 Broken Windows
Comparison between
Bronx & Palo Alto?
• Stanford University
• ‘While the city contains homes
that now cost anywhere from
$800,000 to well in excess of $40
million, much of Palo Alto's
housing stock is in the style of
California mid-century middleclass suburbia…’
“Should police activity on the street be
shaped […] by the standards of the
neighborhood rather than the rules of
the state?”
Assumption in the question?
• Public housing project maintenance?
• Long abandoned notion… (last page)
Cost of Zero Tolerance…
Think about your readings & the documentary…