Global Social Cleansing: Postliberal Revanchism And the Export of Zero Tolerance

摘要: case, Mellon was known as Britain's most aggressive, some say brutal, police chief. His district has the dubious distinction of using more tear gas than any other in country. He admires Margaret Thatcher, whose prime ministerial reign included episodes unprecedented brutality against people color, from Brixton to Toxteth, and British miners. Mallon nonetheless feels that policing under "iron lady" "soft." "A villain will get up morning, steal a newspaper pint milk doorstep, snatch someone' s bicycle go on shop-lifting spree," he explains. "By lunchtime have committed dozen crimes" (The Scotsman, 1997). preferred artillery for this war crime is imported New York City: doctrine "zero tolerance." Zero tolerance stems two-decade-old study by two conservative social scientists who proposed "broken windows" thesis: if are allowed break windows with impunity, not only do smaller crimes lead serious ones, but "disordered" appearance neighborhood perpetrates criminal disorder (Wilson Kelling, 1982). The geographic signs produce itself; zero even minor nurtures an anticrime environment. written U.S. liberal urban policy lay decay, it seriously applied 1990s when alternatives liberalism were being energetically constructed. Most inftuentially implemented City chief William Bratton Mayor Giuliani, part much larger shift policy. bankruptcy