The City that Became Safe : New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control.

The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling then is the crime rate drop in New York City, which lasted twice long and was twice as large. This 80% drop in crime over nineteen years represents the largest crime decline...

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Scholarship Online 2011.
Subjects:	Crime prevention > New York (State) > New York. Crime > New York (State) > New York. Police > New York (State) > New York. Crime Crime prevention Police New York (State) > New York Geschichte 1991-2011. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The crime decline
some vital statistics
A safe city now?
Continuity and change in New York City
Of demography and drugs: testing two 1990s theories of crime causation
Policing in New York City
Open questions
Lessons for American crime control
Crime and the city.