03608oam 2200577I 450 991030555250332120230126203919.00-429-97876-60-8133-3450-00-429-49913-20-429-96768-31-4294-9070-510.4324/9780429499135 (CKB)1000000000476238(SSID)ssj0000194309(PQKBManifestationID)12056792(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194309(PQKBWorkID)10231358(PQKB)10203869(MiAaPQ)EBC5294890(OCoLC)1027776949(EXLCZ)99100000000047623820180706d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrLosing Legitimacy Street Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America /Gary LafreeFirst edition.London :Taylor and Francis,2018.1 online resource (240 pages) illustrationsCrime & SocietyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-367-09624-2 0-8133-3451-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.chapter one Understanding Postwar Crime Trends / Gary LaFree -- chapter two Riding the Wave -- Street Crime Trends in Postwar America / Gary LaFree -- chapter three Offender Characteristics and Crime Trends in Postwar America / Gary LaFree -- chapter four Evaluating Common Explanations of Crime / Gary LaFree -- chapter five Crime and Social Institutions / Gary LaFree -- chapter six Crime and American Political Institutions / Gary LaFree -- chapter seven Crime and American Economic Institutions / Gary LaFree -- chapter eight Crime and Changes in the American Family / Gary LaFree -- chapter nine Institutional Responses to the Legitimacy Crisis -- Criminal Justice, Education, and Welfare / Gary LaFree -- chapter ten Crime and Institutional Legitimacy in Postwar America / Gary LaFree."In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanation's based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust, economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account for the modest crime declines of the 1990s."--Provided by publisher.Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)CrimeUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial conditions1980-2020Crime364.973Lafree Gary878242FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910305552503321Losing Legitimacy1960598UNINA