04744nam 2201069 a 450 991078060550332120230207230909.00-8147-6849-00-8147-6772-910.18574/9780814768495(CKB)2440000000014043(EBL)865809(OCoLC)779828254(SSID)ssj0000455876(PQKBManifestationID)11283077(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000455876(PQKBWorkID)10401607(PQKB)11560309(MiAaPQ)EBC865809(OCoLC)647699962(MdBmJHUP)muse10504(DE-B1597)547699(DE-B1597)9780814768495(Au-PeEL)EBL865809(CaPaEBR)ebr10289875(EXLCZ)99244000000001404320080318d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnequal crime decline[electronic resource] theorizing race, urban inequality, and criminal violence /Karen F. ParkerNew York New York University Pressc20081 online resource (176 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-6785-0 0-8147-6725-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-158) and index.Introduction -- The difference race and gender makes : a detailed look at violent crime and the crime drop -- Structural perspectives on crime and their critics -- Racial stratification and the local urban economy -- Race, urban inequality, and the changing nature of violence : an illustration of theoretical integration -- Conclusion.2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence—and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today’s issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America’s landmark crime drop.CrimeUnited StatesSociological aspectsCrime and raceUnited StatesCriminal statisticsUnited StatesUrban violenceUnited StatesSocial indicatorsUnited StatesViolent crimesUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial conditionsUnited StatesEconomic conditionsKaren.Parker.affect.analysis.crime.decades.decline.declined.factors.have.insight.into.looking.offers.original.particularly.past.place.presents.shifts.structural.taken.that.theoretical.three.trends.various.which.CrimeSociological aspects.Crime and raceCriminal statisticsUrban violenceSocial indicatorsViolent crimes364.2/560973Parker Karen F1500706MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780605503321Unequal crime decline3727510UNINA