Justice
James Q. Wilson, 'Broken Windows' Author, Dies at 80
The political scientist forever changed community policing and neighborhood safety practices.
One of the country's best-known urban theorists passed away today. James Q. Wilson created a new paradigm for community policing, one that linked disorder and urban decay to crime.
He had a distinguished academic career, teaching at Harvard, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Pepperdine University. Wison, who was 80, served most recently as a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. He died in Boston, where he was battling leukemia.