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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777711303321

Titolo

Understanding crime trends [[electronic resource] ] : workshop report / / Committee on Understanding Crime Trends, Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C, : National Academy Press, 2008

ISBN

0-309-14039-0

1-282-00797-1

9786612007972

0-309-12587-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

363.20973

Soggetti

Crime - Research - United States

Criminal statistics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction--Richard Rosenfeld and Arthur S. Goldberger""; ""2 Factors Contributing to U.S. Crime Trends--Alfred Blumstein and Richard Rosenfeld""; ""3 Gender and Violence in the United States: Trends in Offending and Victimization--Karen Heimer and Janet L. Lauritsen""; ""4 Crime and Neighborhood Change--Jeffrey Fagan""; ""5 An Empirical Assessment of the Contemporary Crime Trends Puzzle: A Modest Step Toward a More Comprehensive Research Agenda--Eric P. Baumer""; ""6 Forecasting Crime: A City-Level Analysis--John V. Pepper""

""7 On the Use of Aggregate Crime Regressions in Policy Evaluation--Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers""