Crime Drop in America

Informationen zum 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. Zusammenfassung This revised edition focuses on the drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s! and on the patterns since 2000. The contrasts between the crime-drop periods are explored in the new epilogue! which reviews developments in thinking about the causes and control of crime. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The recent rise and fall of American violence Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman; 2. Some recent trends in US violence Alfred Blumstein; 3. Guns and gun violence Garen Wintemute; 4. The limited importance of prison expansion William Spelman; 5. Patterns in adult homicide: 1980-95 Richard Rosenfeld; 6. The rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York Bruce Johnson, Andrew Golub, and Eloise Dunlap; 7. Have changes in policing reduced violent crime John Eck and Edward Maguire; 8. An economic model of recent trends in violence Jeff Grogger; 9. Demographics and US homicide James Alan Fox; Epilogue to the revised edition. After the crime drop Joel Wallman and Alfred Blumstein.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Blumstein, Alfred (H. John Heinz School of Public Blumstein, Alfred Wallman Blumstein
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), Blumstein Alfred (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor), Joel Wallman (Editor), Wallman Joel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521681483
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68148-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology