Crime Drop in America

Name: Crime Drop in America
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ISBN: 9780521792967

ISBN-10: 0521792967

ISBN-13: 9780521792967

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman

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Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, after which something unprecedented occurred. For the next seven years it declined to a level not seen since the 1960s. The puzzle of why this has happened has bedevilled criminologists, politicians, policy makers and citizens. Numerous explanations have been put forth, from improvements in policing to the decline in crack cocaine use. The authors of this timely book explain and assess the plausible causes and competing claims of credit for the crime drop. Here some of Americas top criminologists examine the role of guns, the growing prison population, homicide patterns, drug markets, economic…

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List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/18/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Joel Wallman is Senior Program Officer at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York. He is the author of Aping Language (Cambridge University Press, 1992) He has also published in Computer Applications in the Biosciences, Current Anthropology, Criminology and Public Policy.




The recent rise and fall of American violence




Some recent trends in U.S. violence




Guns and gun violence




The limited importance of prison expansion




Patterns in adult homicide: 1980-1995




The rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York




Have changes in policing reduced violent crime




An economic model of recent trends in violence




Demographics and U.S. homicide



Epilogue to the revised edition


After the crime drop