Add to ORKGThe Myth of the ‘Crime Decline’ seeks to critically interrogate the supposed statistical decline of crime rates, thought to have occurred in a number of predominantly Western countries over the past two decades. Whilst this trend of declining crime rates seems profound, serious questions need to be asked. Data sources need to be critically interrogated and context needs to be provided. This book seeks to do just that.This book examines the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural context within which this decline in crime is said to have occurred, highlighting the changing nature and landscape of crime and its ever deepening resistance to precise measurement. By drawing upon original qualitative research and cutting edge criminological th...
Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This phenomenon is typically referre...
Mirko Draca explains the factors behind falling crime rates in the UK, examining research he and col...
Western industrialised countries experienced major reductions in crime for a decade from the early t...
During the roughly fifty years following the Second World War, the best evidence we have from record...
The ‘crime drop’ is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
The current crime decrease is defying traditional criminological theories such as those espoused by ...
Crime rates have moved in parallel in Western societies since the late Middle Ages. Homicide rates d...
<p class="AbstractTxt">This paper aims to provide a summary of some of the key issues outlined in my...
iii Risk Taking and the Crime Drop of the 1990s Crime rates dropped unexpectedly and dramatically in...
This chapter examines the most important features of the crime decline in the United States during t...
Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This phenomenon is typically referre...
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
This paper examines aggregate crime trends and variation around them from 1988 to 2004 for 26 countr...
There has been a discontinuous but fairly persistent long-term decline in homicide rates in core Eur...
During much of the second half of the twentieth century, public opinion in both the United States an...
Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This phenomenon is typically referre...
Mirko Draca explains the factors behind falling crime rates in the UK, examining research he and col...
Western industrialised countries experienced major reductions in crime for a decade from the early t...
During the roughly fifty years following the Second World War, the best evidence we have from record...
The ‘crime drop’ is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
The current crime decrease is defying traditional criminological theories such as those espoused by ...
Crime rates have moved in parallel in Western societies since the late Middle Ages. Homicide rates d...
<p class="AbstractTxt">This paper aims to provide a summary of some of the key issues outlined in my...
iii Risk Taking and the Crime Drop of the 1990s Crime rates dropped unexpectedly and dramatically in...
This chapter examines the most important features of the crime decline in the United States during t...
Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This phenomenon is typically referre...
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, ...
This paper examines aggregate crime trends and variation around them from 1988 to 2004 for 26 countr...
There has been a discontinuous but fairly persistent long-term decline in homicide rates in core Eur...
During much of the second half of the twentieth century, public opinion in both the United States an...
Crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This phenomenon is typically referre...
Mirko Draca explains the factors behind falling crime rates in the UK, examining research he and col...
Western industrialised countries experienced major reductions in crime for a decade from the early t...