Crime Decline in Context
Open Access
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Contexts
- Vol. 1 (1) , 25-34
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.1.25
Abstract
Skyrocketing violent crime rates obsessed Americans for decades. Crime rates have now been dropping for 10 years. What has happened, and how can we learn from it?Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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