LEADER 03608oam 2200577I 450 001 9910305552503321 005 20230126203919.0 010 $a0-429-97876-6 010 $a0-8133-3450-0 010 $a0-429-49913-2 010 $a0-429-96768-3 010 $a1-4294-9070-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780429499135 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476238 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194309 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12056792 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194309 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231358 035 $a(PQKB)10203869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5294890 035 $a(OCoLC)1027776949 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476238 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLosing Legitimacy $eStreet Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America /$fGary Lafree 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCrime & Society 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-367-09624-2 311 $a0-8133-3451-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tchapter one Understanding Postwar Crime Trends /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter two Riding the Wave -- $tStreet Crime Trends in Postwar America /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter three Offender Characteristics and Crime Trends in Postwar America /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter four Evaluating Common Explanations of Crime /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter five Crime and Social Institutions /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter six Crime and American Political Institutions /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter seven Crime and American Economic Institutions /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter eight Crime and Changes in the American Family /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter nine Institutional Responses to the Legitimacy Crisis -- $tCriminal Justice, Education, and Welfare /$r Gary LaFree -- $tchapter ten Crime and Institutional Legitimacy in Postwar America /$r Gary LaFree. 330 2 $a"In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanation's based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust, economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account for the modest crime declines of the 1990s."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aCrime & society (Boulder, Colo.) 606 $aCrime$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980-2020 615 0$aCrime 676 $a364.973 700 $aLafree$b Gary$0878242 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910305552503321 996 $aLosing Legitimacy$91960598 997 $aUNINA