Publication

2007 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006012374
  • Goodreads2060534
  • LibraryThing3079629

Classifications

  • DDC364.97309/049
  • LCCHV6783 .Z56 2007

Description

Many theories, from the routine to the bizarre, have been offered to explain the crime decline of the 1990s - record levels of imprisonment, an abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic, more police using better tactics, or even the effects of legalized abortion. And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance.

Subjects

Topics

CrimeHistorySocial conditionsEconomic conditionsCrime, united statesUnited states - economic historyCriminology - general & miscellaneous

Places

Series Statement

  • Studies in crime and public policy

Other Editions

  • The great American crime declineOxford University Press2007-01-01

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