"Shakespeare and Criminology" at NPR's Weekend in Washington

The Shakespeare and Criminology project was featured at the NPR Weekend in Washington. 

You Must Re-Think This: What The Bard Tells Us About Broken Windows and Policing

After the recent police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island, Science Correspondent Shankar Vedantam, who reports on human behavior and the social sciences, was looking into the broken windows theory of policing. Among his most unexpected discoveries was a link to … Shakespeare! Vedantam and Preceptor in the Harvard College Writing Program Jeff Wilson discuss the ways in which the Bard, writing four hundred years ago, anticipated many of the developments and insights in modern criminology.