| Autore |
Zimring Franklin E
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (273 p.)
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| Disciplina |
364.97309/049
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| Collana |
Studies in crime and public policy
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| Soggetto topico |
Crime - United States - History - 20th century
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
0-19-537898-9
1-4294-5921-2
0-19-970253-5
1-280-84541-4
0-19-534619-X
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Part I: What Happened in the 1990's?; 1 The Size and Character of the Crime Decline; 2 The Environment for Optimism: Crime Trends and Attitudes about the Effectiveness of Crime Policies; Part II: The Search for Causes; 3 The Usual Suspects: Imprisonment, Demography, and the Economy; 4 Progeny of the 1990's: Three New Explanations of Decline; Part III: Two New Perspectives; 5 Which Twin Has the Toni? Some Statistical Lessons from Canada; 6 New York City's Natural Experiment; Part IV: Twenty-First Century Lessons; 7 What Happens Next?; 8 Seven Lessons from the 1990's
Appendix 1 Crime and Abortion Policy in Europe, Canada, and Australia Appendix 2 Supplementary Statistics on Crime Trends in Canada during the 1990's; Appendix 3 Trends for the City of New York and the United States during the 1990's; Appendix 4 Measuring the Extent of Decline in Selected High-Decline Cities; References; Index;
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465102903321 |
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The great American crime decline [[electronic resource] /] / Franklin E. Zimring
