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The crime drop in America / edited by Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman.
LIBRA HV6789 .C6814 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--United States.
- Crime.
- United States.
- Violent crimes--United States.
- Violent crimes.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Top criminologists explain the reasons for the drop in violent crime in America.
- Contents:
- 1 The Recent Rise and Fall of American Violence / Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman 1
- 2 Disaggregating the Violence Trends / Alfred Blumstein 13
- 3 Guns and Gun Violence / Garen Wintemute 45
- 4 The Limited Importance of Prison Expansion / William Spelman 97
- 5 Patterns in Adult Homicide: 1980-1995 / Richard Rosenfeld 130
- 6 The Rise and Decline of Hard Drugs, Drug Markets, and Violence in Inner-City New York / Bruce Johnson, Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap 164
- 7 Have Changes in Policing Reduced Violent Crime? An Assessment of the Evidence / John Eck, Edward Maguire 207
- 8 An Economic Model of Recent Trends in Violence / Jeff Grogger 266
- 9 Demographics and U.S. Homicide / James Alan fox 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521792967
- 0521797128
- OCLC:
- 43930210
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