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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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