The crime drop in America /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blumstein, Alfred, Wallman, Joel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Edición:Rev. ed.
Colección:Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Temas:
Crime > United States.
Violent crimes > United States.
Crimes violents > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime.
Violent crimes.
Kriminalität
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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