George l. kelling biography

George Lee Kelling (August 21, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers.
George L. Kelling, who died in 2019, was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
George Lee Kelling was born on Aug. 21, 1935, in Milwaukee to George and Mathilda (Benn) Kelling.

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About the Author

George Lee Kelling was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 21, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Olaf College, a master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He show more worked as a probation officer and ran a residential-care program for troubled youth before being hired in 1972 as a consultant to the National Police Foundation, a research and advocacy group, to evaluate how best to deploy officers. In 1982, Kelling and James Q. Wilson wrote an article entitled Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety for The Atlantic magazine. The premise of the article was that even one broken window in a community can signal that no one cares and that this kind of neglect can lead to disorder and crime. Kelling and his wife Catherine M. Coles wrote the book Fixing Broken Windows, which was published in 1996. He died from complications of cancer on May 15, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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George Kelling, whose ‘broken windows’ theory revolutionized urban policing, dies at 83

George L. Kelling, a criminologist whose “broken windows” theory revolutionized urban policing and helped make sprawling cities like Los Angeles safer but stoked criticism that it also invited police abuse, had died at his home in New Hampshire. He was 83.

Kelling, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died Wednesday, his wife, Catherine M. Coles, announced on Facebook.

A former social worker, Kelling had a long career spanning highs and lows. His famous 1982 Atlantic magazine article “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” co-written with James Q. Wilson, had wide-ranging influence.

Not many criminologists are credited with immediate social change. But Kelling was celebrated for having helped tame urban crime and blight and his ideas were embraced from Newark, N.J., to Boyle Heights.

William S. Bratton, former LAPD chief and two-time New York City police commissioner, was among his admirers and employed his concepts when he tried to restore order in Los Angeles, a city that ha

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George L. Kelling

George L. Kelling, who died in 2019, was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Kelling practiced social work as a child-care worker and as a probation officer and administered residential-care programs for aggressive and disturbed youth. In 1972, he began work at the Police Foundation and conducted several large-scale experiments in policing—notably, the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. The latter was the source of his contribution, with James Q. Wilson, to his most familiar essay in TheAtlantic, “Broken Windows.” During the late 1980s, Kelling developed the order-maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. Later, he consulted with the New York City Police Department in dealing with, among others, “squeegee men.”

Kelling was coauthor, with his wife, Catherine M. Coles, of Fixing Broken Windows: