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.