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Understanding crime trends : workshop report
Title
Understanding crime trends : workshop report / Committee on Understanding Crime Trends, Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.
ISBN
0309125863
9780309125864
Published
Washington, D.C : National Academies Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xv, 241 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Richard Rosenfeld and Arthur S. Goldberger
Factors contributing to U.S. crime trends / Alfred Blumstein and Richard Rosenfeld
Gender and violence in the United States: trends in offending and victimization / Karen Heimer and Janet L. Lauritsen
Crime and neighborhood change / Jeffrey Fagan
An empirical assessment of the contemporary crime trends puzzle: a modest step toward a more comprehensive research agenda / Eric P. Baumer
Forecasting crime: a city-level analysis / John V. Pepper
On the use of aggregate crime regressions in policy evaluation / Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Understanding Crime Trends.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice.
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