Understanding New York’s Crime Drop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding New York’s Crime Drop write by Richard Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Understanding New York’s Crime Drop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores New York City’s historic crime drop over the past quarter of a century. New York City’s dramatic crime decline is a real brainteaser: no one predicted it and, as of yet, no one has explained it, at least to the satisfaction of most social scientists who study crime trends. Three strategic lessons emerge from the contributions to this volume on New York’s crime drop. It is suggested that future research should: • go wide by putting New York in comparative context, nationally and internationally; • go long by putting New York’s recent experience in historical context; • develop a strong ground game by investigating New York’s crime drop across multiple spatial units, down to the street segment. The contributors to Understanding New York’s Crime Drop aim to provoke expanded and sustained attention to crime trends in New York and elsewhere. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Justice Quarterly.
Fixing Broken Windows
Fixing Broken Windows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fixing Broken Windows write by George L. Kelling. This book was released on 1997. Fixing Broken Windows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cites successful examples of community-based policing.
The City That Became Safe
The City That Became Safe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City That Became Safe write by Franklin E. Zimring. This book was released on 2013-11. The City That Became Safe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses many of the ways that New York City dropped its crime rate between the years of 1991 and 2000.
The Great American Crime Decline
The Great American Crime Decline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great American Crime Decline write by Franklin E. Zimring. This book was released on 2008-11-05. The Great American Crime Decline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.
Uneasy Peace
Uneasy Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uneasy Peace write by Patrick Sharkey. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Uneasy Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot wound replaced by concern about skyrocketing rents. In Uneasy Peace, Patrick Sharkey, “the leading young scholar of urban crime and concentrated poverty” (Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis) reveals the striking effects: improved school test scores, because children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a marked increase in the life expectancy of African American men. Some of the forces that brought about safer streets—such as the intensive efforts made by local organizations to confront violence in their own communities—have been positive, Sharkey explains. But the drop in violent crime has also come at the high cost of aggressive policing and mass incarceration. From Harlem to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combating violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again, the issue of police brutality has taken center stage, and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
