TY - BOOK AU - Blumstein,Alfred AU - Wallman,Joel TI - The crime drop in America T2 - Cambridge studies in criminology SN - 9780521681483 AV - HV 6789 C929 2006 U1 - 364.973 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Crime KW - United States KW - Crimen KW - Estados Unidos KW - Violent crimes KW - Delitos violentos N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005055304-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005055304-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2005055304-b.html ER -