Crime in the city : a political and economic analysis of urban crime / Lesley Williams Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Lesley Williams, 1971-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice, recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--United States.

Crime.

Crime--United States--Sociological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By exploring the political and economic histories of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and New Orleans, Reid documents how each city experienced the demise of the industrial, welfare-state political economy and the rise of the post-industrial, absentee-state political economy and how these transformations have affected urban crime rates. Crime rates increased as manufacturing employment decreased. By contrast, high-skill service-sector growth led to less crime in Boston, while low-skill service-sector growth led to more crime in Atlanta. In addition, those cities emphasizing criminal justice expenditures at the expense of social welfare expenditures have had more crime than those cities that did not. Political and economic conditions have influenced crime rates, in sometimes surprising ways, across the post-World War II urban landscape.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Economics, Politics and Crime

Theoretical Links Between Crime and Urban Political Economy

Analyzing Crime Across Time and Space

Detroit: The First City

Boston: The Real Renaissance

New Orleans: The City That Care Forgot

Atlanta: The Same Old New South

The Comparative Political Economy of Crime

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-257) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-36134-4

9786610361342

1-59332-078-7

OCLC:

614981476