The great American crime decline /
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 rate...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195346190 019534619X 9781429459211 1429459212 9780199944132 019994413X 0199702535 9780199702534 1280845414 9781280845413 9786610845415 6610845417 |