Malcolm Gladwell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===''The Tipping Point''=== {{Main|The Tipping Point}} The initial inspiration for his first book, ''The Tipping Point'', which was published in 2000, came from the sudden drop of crime in [[New York City]]. He wanted the book to have a broader appeal than just crime, however, and sought to explain similar phenomena through the lens of [[epidemiology]]. While Gladwell was a reporter for ''The Washington Post'', he covered the [[AIDS]] epidemic. He began to take note of "how strange epidemics were", saying epidemiologists have a "strikingly different way of looking at the world". The term "[[Tipping point (sociology)#Other uses|tipping point]]" comes from the moment in an epidemic when the virus reaches [[critical mass]] and begins to spread at a much higher rate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba2000-03-29.htm|title=Interview {{!}} ''Epidemic'' Proportions|date=29 March 2000|first=Toby|last= Lester|website=www.theatlantic.com|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref> Gladwell's theories of crime were heavily influenced by the "[[broken windows theory]]" of policing, and Gladwell is credited for packaging and popularizing the theory in a way that was implementable in New York City. Gladwell's theoretical implementation bears a striking resemblance to the "[[Stop-and-frisk in New York City|stop-and-frisk]]" policies of the NYPD.<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url = http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sorry-malcolm-gladwell-nycs-drop-in-crime-not-due-to-broken-window-theory-12636297/?no-ist|title = Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell: NYC's Drop in Crime Not Due to Broken Window Theory|date = 6 February 2013|access-date = 10 April 2015|last = Nuwer|first = Rachel|author-link = Rachel Nuwer|website = [[The Smithsonian Magazine]]}}</ref> However, in the decade and a half since its publication, ''The Tipping Point'' and Gladwell have both come under fire for the tenuous link between "broken windows" and New York City's drop in violent crime. During a 2013 interview with [[BBC]] journalist [[Jon Ronson]] for ''[[The Culture Show]]'', Gladwell admitted that he was "too in love with the broken-windows notion". He went on to say that he was "so enamored by the metaphorical simplicity of that idea that I overstated its importance".<ref name="PubliclyShamed">{{cite book | title=So You've Been Publicly Shamed | publisher=Pan MacMillan |author=Ronson, Jon |year=2015 | pages=160β162 | isbn=978-1-59448-713-2}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page