LEADER 04764nam 2201081 a 450 001 9910813640003321 005 20240516125328.0 010 $a0-8147-6849-0 010 $a0-8147-6772-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814768495 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014043 035 $a(EBL)865809 035 $a(OCoLC)779828254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000455876 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11283077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000455876 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401607 035 $a(PQKB)11560309 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865809 035 $a(OCoLC)647699962 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10504 035 $a(DE-B1597)547699 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814768495 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865809 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10289875 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014043 100 $a20080318d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnequal crime decline$b[electronic resource] $etheorizing race, urban inequality, and criminal violence /$fKaren F. Parker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-6785-0 311 $a0-8147-6725-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 135-158) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $a2009 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. 606 $aCrime$zUnited States$xSociological aspects 606 $aCrime and race$zUnited States 606 $aCriminal statistics$zUnited States 606 $aUrban violence$zUnited States 606 $aSocial indicators$zUnited States 606 $aViolent crimes$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 610 $aKaren. 610 $aParker. 610 $aaffect. 610 $aanalysis. 610 $acrime. 610 $adecades. 610 $adecline. 610 $adeclined. 610 $afactors. 610 $ahave. 610 $ainsight. 610 $ainto. 610 $alooking. 610 $aoffers. 610 $aoriginal. 610 $aparticularly. 610 $apast. 610 $aplace. 610 $apresents. 610 $ashifts. 610 $astructural. 610 $ataken. 610 $athat. 610 $atheoretical. 610 $athree. 610 $atrends. 610 $avarious. 610 $awhich. 615 0$aCrime$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aCrime and race 615 0$aCriminal statistics 615 0$aUrban violence 615 0$aSocial indicators 615 0$aViolent crimes 676 $a364.2/560973 700 $aParker$b Karen F$01699949 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813640003321 996 $aUnequal crime decline$94082604 997 $aUNINA