Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Contributors
- 1 The Recent Rise and Fall of American Violence
- 2 Disaggregating the Violence Trends
- 3 Guns and Gun Violence
- 4 The Limited Importance of Prison Expansion
- 5 Patterns in Adult Homicide: 1980–1995
- 6 The Rise and Decline of Hard Drugs, Drug Markets, and Violence in Inner-City New York
- 7 Have Changes in Policing Reduced Violent Crime? An Assessment of the Evidence
- 8 An Economic Model of Recent Trends in Violence
- 9 Demographics and U.S. Homicide
- Epilogue, 2005: After the Crime Drop
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Contributors
- 1 The Recent Rise and Fall of American Violence
- 2 Disaggregating the Violence Trends
- 3 Guns and Gun Violence
- 4 The Limited Importance of Prison Expansion
- 5 Patterns in Adult Homicide: 1980–1995
- 6 The Rise and Decline of Hard Drugs, Drug Markets, and Violence in Inner-City New York
- 7 Have Changes in Policing Reduced Violent Crime? An Assessment of the Evidence
- 8 An Economic Model of Recent Trends in Violence
- 9 Demographics and U.S. Homicide
- Epilogue, 2005: After the Crime Drop
- Index
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- The Crime Drop in America , pp. ix - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005