Understanding New York’s Crime Drop

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crime Drop

Outlining the Crime Drop

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Stephen Farrall
Keyword(s):  
Crime Drop

Explaining the Great American Crime Decline: A Review of Blumstein and Wallman, Goldberger and Rosenfeld, and Zimring

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (02) ◽  
pp. 489-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Barker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Workshop Report ◽  
Crime Drop ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Crime Decline ◽  
American Society

This essay reviews three books as they document and explain the 1990s crime decline: Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman, eds., (2006) The Crime Drop in America; Arthur S. Goldberger and Richard Rosenfeld, eds., (2008) Understanding Crime Patterns: Workshop Report; and Franklin E. Zimring (2007), The Great American Crime Decline. It presents the empirical detail of the crime decline and examines the most commonly cited explanatory factors: imprisonment, policing, demography, and economic growth. It then suggests alternative lines of research in urban sociology—urban development, youth culture, and immigration—that may better explain the decline as the result of changes in the cultural and social fabric of American society, particularly in cities where the steepest declines occurred.

Underlying Patterns within the England and Wales Crime Drop

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Britton ◽  
Chris Kershaw ◽  
Sarah Osborne ◽  
Kevin Smith
Keyword(s):  
England And Wales ◽  
Crime Drop

6. Understanding the crime drop

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Tim Newburn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Simple Explanation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Crime Drop

‘Understanding the crime drop’ explains that the downward trend has not been confined to particular countries. Nor is it a short-term blip, but has been sustained over a significant period of time, even during periods of great economic turbulence. There is no simple explanation for the rise or fall of crime. It is a combination of factors, including matters of political economy, social inequality, changes in our routine activities, and, more recently, greater attention given to security and crime prevention, which most likely explains the observed trends. However, the role of the Internet is also explored. Do our main measures of crime underestimate just how much crime is taking place?

scholarly journals Violence and the crime drop

2020 ◽  
pp. 147737082091345
Author(s):  
Soenita M. Ganpat ◽  
Laura Garius ◽  
Andromachi Tseloni ◽  
Nick Tilley
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Crime Concentration ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Crime Drop ◽  
Weighted Data ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Stranger Violence

According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence fell dramatically between 1995 and 2013/14. To improve understanding of the fall in violent crime, this study examines long-term crime trends in England and Wales over the past two decades, by scrutinizing the trends in (a) stranger and acquaintance violence, (b) severity of violence, (c) age groups, and (d) sexes. It draws on nationally representative, weighted data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and examines prevalence, incidence and crime concentration trends. The overall violence fall was driven by a decline in the victimization of young individuals and/or males perpetrated by acquaintances since 1995. Stranger and acquaintance violence followed different trajectories, with the former beginning to drop post 2003/4. Falls in both stranger and acquaintance violence incidence rates were led by a reduction in victims over time. Counting all incidents reported by the same victim (instead of capping at five incidents) significantly affects trends in stranger violence but not in acquaintance violence. In relation to the distributive justice within the crime drop, this study provides unique evidence of equitable falls in acquaintance violence but inequitable falls in stranger violence. These findings highlight the need to examine violence types separately and point to a number of areas for future research.

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