The Crime Drop in America (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980's and continued to climb until 1991, after which something unprecedented occurred. The crime level declined to a level not seen since the 1960's. This revised edition of The Crime Drop in America focuses first on the dramatic drop in crime rates in America in the 1990's, and then, in a new epilogue, on the patterns since 2000. The separate chapters written by distinguished experts cover the many factors affecting crime rates: policing, incarceration, drug markets, gun control, economics, and demographics. Detailed analyses emphasize the mutual effects of changes in crack markets, a major focus of youth violence, and the drop in rates of violence following decline in demand for crack. The contrasts between the crime-drop period of the 1990's and the period since 2000 are explored in the new epilogue, which also reviews major new developments in thinking about the causes and control of crime.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	2006
Editors:	Alfred Blumstein • Joel Wallman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-86279-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN:	0-521-86279-5
Barcode:	9780521862790

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