2009 "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title
Crime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the
decline has been well-documented, few scholars have analyzed which
groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are
still on the frontlines of violence--and why that might be. In
Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and
theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime
decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the
shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into
which trends have declined and why.
Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market
opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial
composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker
provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not
affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in
relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks,
whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well
as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural
theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating
on today's issues and important contemporary policy to be
considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and
theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race,
urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and
following America's landmark crime drop.
General
Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2008 |
First published: |
October 2008 |
Authors: |
Karen F. Parker
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
180 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-6725-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8147-6725-7 |
Barcode: |
9780814767252 |
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