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Losing Legitimacy - Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America (Paperback)
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Losing Legitimacy - Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America (Paperback)
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In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have
increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned,
were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African
Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of
just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanations
based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving
social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these
changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities.
Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that
social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime
wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust,
economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were
especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society
responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and
welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social
institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account
for the modest crime declines of the 1990s.
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