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Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy Video Library
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Featured Films
Explaining crime. [Part 3], Social theory and crime : space, place and windows (streaming, Academic Video Online)
Spatial criminology asks whether it’s possible to reduce crime by changing social spaces. This video begins with Zimbardo’s influential abandoned cars experiment and the development of Wilson and Kelling’s broken windows theory. It looks at the impact of broken windows policy on crime in New York in the 1990s and concludes by looking at recent experiments in the Netherlands by Keizer that demonstrate the effect of environmental change on crime.
Frontline. United States of Secrets (streaming, Academic Video Online)
FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of how the U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of millions of people around the world--including ordinary Americans--and the lengths they went to as they tried to hide this massive surveillance program from the public.
Minority Report (dvd)
Based on a story by science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, Minority Report was Steven Spielberg's second consecutive film to deal with a future where technology has advanced to a troubling state. This thriller tells the story of the chief of the elite Pre-Crime Unit (Tom Cruise) is himself accused of a future murder - he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up or fall victim to the "perfect" system he helped create.
