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Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788136559
Author : Barry Latzer
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781594039300
A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that it frightened virtually all Americans and prompted significant alterations in everyday behaviors and even lifestyles. The risk of being mugged was a concern when Americans chose places to live and schools for their children, selected commuter routes to work, and planned their leisure activities. In some locales, people were afraid to leave their dwellings at any time, day or night, even to go to the market. In the worst of the post-1960s crime wave, Americans spent part of each day literally looking back over their shoulders. The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America is the first book to comprehensively examine this important phenomenon over the entire postwar era. It combines a social history of the United States with the insights of criminology and examines the relationship between rising and falling crime and such historical developments as the postwar economic boom, suburbanization and the rise of the middle class, baby booms and busts, war and antiwar protest, the urbanization of minorities, and more.
Author : Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000164336
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice versa)? What has been the government’s response to drug trafficking and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence? Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, international relations, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Violent crimes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062056259
Author : Council on Crime in America,Griffin B. Bell,William John Bennett,Lynne M. Abraham,John P. Walters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:187467680
Author : Barry Latzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1594039291
"Starting in the late 1960s, the United States suffered the biggest rise in violent crime in its history. Aside from the movement for black civil rights, it is difficult to think of a phenomenon that had a more profound effect on American life in the last third of the 20th century. Fear of murder, rape, robbery and assault influenced decisions on where to live and where to school one's children, how to commute to work and where to spend one's leisure time. In some locales, people dreaded leaving their homes at any time, day or night, and many Americans spent part of each day literally looking over their shoulders. [This books is a] synthesis of criminology and social history that...explains how and why violent crime exploded across the United States in the late 60s--and what ultimately drove it down decades later. It is the first book of its kind to analyze criminal violence in the U.S. from World War II to the 21st century. It examines crime in the context of all of the major social trends since the World War, including the postwar economic boom and suburbanization, the Baby Boom and the turmoil of the 60s, the urbanization of minorities, the advent of crack cocaine, the hardening of the criminal justice system and current efforts to contract it."--
Author : United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : PURD:32754063457059
Author : United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Crime
ISBN : PURD:32754078653783
Author : Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195131055
Publisher Fact Sheet Offers a startling new look at crime & violence in America that will reshape the debate about crime control.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Criminal statistics
ISBN : UCBK:C039189442
Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383
Cites successful examples of community-based policing.
Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506320281
Anyone living or working in a city has feared or experienced street crime at one time or another; whether it be a mugging, purse snatching, or a more violent crime. In the U.S., street crime has recently hovered near historic lows; hence, the declaration of certain analysts that street life in America has never been safer. But is it really? Street crime has changed over past decades, especially with the advent of surveillance cameras in public places—the territory of the street criminal—but at the same time, criminals have found ways to adapt. This encyclopedic reference focuses primarily on urban lifestyle and its associated crimes, ranging from burglary to drug peddling to murder to new, more sophisticated forms of street crime and scams. This traditional A-to-Z reference has significant coverage of police and courts and other criminal justice sub-disciplines while also featuring thematic articles on the sociology of street crime. Features & Benefits: 175 signed entries within a single volume in print and electronic formats provide in-depth coverage to the topic of street crime in America. Cross-References and Suggestions for Further Readings guide readers to additional resources. Entries are supported by vivid photos and illustrations to better bring the material alive. A thematic Reader's Guide groups related entries by broad topic areas and, within the electronic version, combines with Cross-References and a detailed Index for convenient search-and-browse capabilities. A Chronology provides readers with a historical perspective of street crime in America. Appendices provide sources of data and statistics, annotated to highlight their relevance.
Author : John R Lott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226493644
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."Peter Coy, Business Week "By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."John O. McGinnis, National Review "His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date." Public Choice "For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News "A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crimeis an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."James Bovard, Wall Street Journal "John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."Milton Friedman
Author : Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198027096
In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compared to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent crime, American crime rates are comparable--even lower, in some cases. Only when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace other Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. London and New York City have nearly the same number of robberies and burglaries each year, but robbers and burglars kill 54 victims in New York for every victim death in London. Why are the risks so much greater that victims will be killed or maimed in the United States? And what can be done to bring the death rate from American violence down to tolerable levels? The authors show how the impact of television and movie violence on rates of homicide is wildly overrated, but emphasize the paramount importance of guns. By making the crucial distinction between lethal violence and crime in general, the authors clear the ground for a targeted, far more effective response to the real crisis in American society. Crime is Not the Problem will reshape the debate about crime control in the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Criminal statistics
ISBN : PURD:32754062028844