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James Quinn Wilson
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QUOTE: People are governed in their
daily lives by rewards and penalties of every sort. We shop for bargain prices;
praise our children for good behavior and scold them for bad; expect lower
interest rates to stimulate home building and fear that higher ones will
depress it; and conduct ourselves in public in ways that lead our friends and
neighbors to form good opinions of us. To assert that “deterrence doesn’t work”
is tantamount to either denying the plainest facts of everyday life or claiming
that would-be criminals are utterly different from the rest of us.
AUTHOR: James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 –
March 2, 2012) was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority
on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA
and Harvard. He coauthored a leading university textbook on American
government, as well as many scholarly books and articles, and op-ed essays.
Conservatives especially welcomed his ideas on urban decay and police-related
issues. He gained national attention for a 1982 article introducing the broken
windows theory. Wilson served on many national committees and boards, and was
elected president of the American Political Science Association.
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