| LC control no. | n 85285641 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kelling, George L. |
| Variant(s) | Kelling, George |
| Located | Hanover (N.H.) |
| Birth date | 1935-08-21 |
| Death date | 2019-05-15 |
| Place of birth | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
| Place of death | Hanover (N.H.) |
| Field of activity | Criminology Social service |
| Affiliation | John F. Kennedy School of Government University of Wisconsin--Madison Rutgers--Newark Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |
| Profession or occupation | Criminologists Social workers |
| Found in | His Foot patrol, 1986: t.p. (George L. Kelling, Harvard University) Fixing broken windows, 1996: CIP t.p. (George L. Kelling) data sheet (b. 08-21-35) nuc87-5269: Kadushin, A. An innovative program in social work ... 1973 (hdg. on NNC rept.: Kelling, George; usage: George Kelling) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 20, 2019 (George L. Kelling, a criminologist who accompanied police officers in rough neighborhoods while devising what he and political scientist James Q. Wilson called the "broken windows" theory of crime prevention, which has had a powerful influence on community policing tactics since the 1980s, died May 15 [2019] at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 83. In 1982, while he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he and Wilson published an article in the Atlantic magazine under the title "Broken Windows." Dr. Kelling began investigating police tactics and crime prevention in the 1970s. George Lee Kelling was born Aug. 21, 1935, in Milwaukee. After spending two years at a Lutheran seminary, Dr. Kelling graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. He later received a master of social work degree from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a doctorate in social work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. After holding jobs as a social worker, probation officer and group-home supervisor, he began his research at the Police Foundation and later at Northeastern University in Boston. He later taught at Rutgers University at Newark and was a longtime fellow of the Manhattan Institute think tank) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 87803733 |
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