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Title The crime drop in America / edited by Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HV6789 .C6814 2000    Available  ---
Description xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in criminology
Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Recent rise and fall of American violence / Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman -- Disaggregating the violence trends / Alfred Blumstein -- Guns and gun violence / Garen Wintemute -- Limited importance of prison expansion / William Spelman -- Patterns in adult homicide: 1980-1995 / Richard Rosenfeld -- Rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York / Bruce Johnson, Andrew Golub, Eloise Dunlap -- Have changes in policing reduced violent crime? An assessment of the evidence / John Eck, Edward Maguire -- An economic model of recent trends in violence / Jeff Grogger -- Demographics and U.S. homicide / James Alan Fox.
Subject Crime -- United States.
Crime.
United States.
Violent crimes -- United States.
Violent crimes.
Criminalité -- États-Unis.
Crimes violents -- États-Unis.
Crimenes violentos -- Estados Unidos.
Crimen -- Estados Unidos.
Added Author Blumstein, Alfred.
Wallman, Joel.
ISBN 052179296X
0521797128 paperback