Malcolm Gladwell: Creative Solutions to Prevent Crime October 20, 2011
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011
Author Malcolm Gladwell discusses the importance of creativity in addressing crime prevention. America focuses mainly on the severity of a punishment, he notes, while neglecting that deterrence is also affected by the certainty of getting caught and how quickly punishment takes place.
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The New Yorker Festival presents: Malcolm Gladwell: The Virtues of Obnoxiousness. This program was recorded on October 2, 2011.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the Times best-sellers The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Outliers: The Story of Success, and What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures.
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