Crime Drop in America

Name: Crime Drop in America
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ISBN: 9780521681483

ISBN-10: 0521681480

ISBN-13: 9780521681483

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman, David Farrington, David Farrington

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Focusing on the dramatic drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s and then on the patterns since 2000, this work covers the many factors affecting crime rate: policing, incarceration, drug markets, gun control, economics, and demographics.

Book details

List price: $46.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
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