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050 0 _aHV6783
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100 1 _aZimring, Franklin E.
245 1 4 _aThe great American crime decline
_h[electronic resource] /
_cFranklin E. Zimring.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2007.
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 258 p.) :
_bill.
490 1 _aStudies in crime and public policy
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aMany theories, from the routine to the bizarre, have been offered to explain the crime decline of the 1990s - 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCrime
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEconomic conditions
_y1981-2001.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial conditions
_y1980-
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780195181159
830 0 _aStudies in crime and public policy.
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181159.001.0001
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c39168
_d39168