Contra “Root Causes:” What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today

Few scholars influenced American government in the twentieth century more profoundly than James Q. Wilson. Presidents consulted him for his expertise on everything from crime to drug abuse to bioethics, and his prolific writings—on bureaucracy, urban governance, and even coral-reef fish—often shaped public debate. President George W. Bush called Wilson “the most influential political scientist in America since the White House was home to President Woodrow Wilson” when, in 2003, he awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments.

Contra “Root Causes:” What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today Times-square-murder-scene-1984

Contra “Root Causes:” What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today Times-square-murder-scene-1984

Wilson, who would have been 90 this year (he died in 2012), was by training a political scientist. But it is his contributions to the study of crime for which he is best remembered, and they are most relevant to the present moment. The popular press often describes him as the originator, along with the Manhattan Institute’s George Kelling, of the “Broken Windows” theory of public safety (both Kelling and Wilson were regular City Journal contributors), earning him praise from some for the great crime decline—and blame from others for the rise of mass incarceration.

It is within the context of Wilson’s ideas that contemporary debates about criminal justice are inescapably situated. Our disputes about “defunding the police” and “decarceration,” about “stop and frisk” and Broken Windows, about how punitive the criminal-justice system should be—all can be traced back to the revolution in criminal-justice policy that Wilson helped inaugurate in the 1980s and 1990s. The debates are about the efficacy of policing and prisons but also about the philosophical justifications for whom we punish and why.

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Contra “Root Causes:” What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today

Contra “Root Causes:” What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today

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