New York Murder Mystery : : The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s /

New York Murder Mystery : : The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s / / Andrew Karmen.

Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a local and a national context for New York's plunging crime rate, Karmen tests and debunks the many self-serving explanations for the decline. While cr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Karmen, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1 The 1990s Crime Crash in New York
  • 2 Deconstructing Murders
  • 3 NYPD or Not NYPD: That Is the Question
  • 4 Behind Bars?
  • 5 The Drug-Crime Connection
  • 6 It’s the Economy, Stupid! Or Is It? Did the Boom Cause the Crash?
  • 7 Where Have All the Criminals Gone? Did Favorable Demographic Trends Facilitate the Crash?
  • 8 Lessons from the New York Experience
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • About the Author

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