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The crime drop in America / [edited by] Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Edition: Revised editionDescription: xiii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521681483
  • 0521681480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.973
LOC classification:
  • HV 6789 C929 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The recent rise and fall of American violence / Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman -- Disaggregating the violence trends / Alfred Blumstein -- Guns and gun violence / Garen J. Wintemute -- The limited importance of prison expansion / William Spelman -- Patterns in adult homicide: 1980-1995 / Richard Rosenfeld -- The rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York / Bruce D. Johnson, Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap -- Have changes in policing reduced violent crime? An assessment of the evidence / John E. Eck, Edward R. Maguire -- An economic model of recent trends in violence / Jeffrey Grogger -- Demographics and U.S. homicide / James Alan Fox -- Epilogue, 2005 : After the crime drop / Joel Wallman, Alfred Blumstein.
Summary: This revised edition focuses on the drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s, and on the patterns since 2000. The contrasts between the crime-drop periods are explored in the new epilogue, which reviews developments in thinking about the causes and control of crime.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The recent rise and fall of American violence / Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman -- Disaggregating the violence trends / Alfred Blumstein -- Guns and gun violence / Garen J. Wintemute -- The limited importance of prison expansion / William Spelman -- Patterns in adult homicide: 1980-1995 / Richard Rosenfeld -- The rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York / Bruce D. Johnson, Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap -- Have changes in policing reduced violent crime? An assessment of the evidence / John E. Eck, Edward R. Maguire -- An economic model of recent trends in violence / Jeffrey Grogger -- Demographics and U.S. homicide / James Alan Fox -- Epilogue, 2005 : After the crime drop / Joel Wallman, Alfred Blumstein.

This revised edition focuses on the drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s, and on the patterns since 2000. The contrasts between the crime-drop periods are explored in the new epilogue, which reviews developments in thinking about the causes and control of crime.

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