Alfred (Hrsg.) Blumstein

The Crime Drop in America

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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. The crime level declined to a level not seen since the 1960s. This revised edition of The Crime Drop in America focuses first on the dramatic drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s, 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 f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wallman, Joel (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-86279-0
EAN: 9780521862790
Produktnummer: 1884336
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 376 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.6 cm 729 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 729

Über den Autor

Alfred Blumstein is a university professor and the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former Dean (from 1986 to 1993) at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management of Carnegie Mellon University. He is also director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR). 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.