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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
Published Washington, D.C : National Academies Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Crime -- Research -- United States -- Congresses
Criminal statistics -- United States -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
Crime -- Research.
Criminal statistics.
United States.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Understanding Crime Trends.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice.
ISBN 9780309125871
0309125871