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

 





November 08, 2014

 

 

The [Shakespeare and Criminology](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/shakespeareandcriminology) project was featured at the [NPR Weekend in Washington](https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/86247).

**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.



 

 

 



 

 

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