New York Murder Mystery : The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s / Andrew Karmen.
Karmen, Andrew, author.
2000
HV6534.N5 K367 2000
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Title
New York Murder Mystery : The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s / Andrew Karmen.
Author
Karmen, Andrew, author.
ISBN
9780814763735
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814763735.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814763735.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HV6534.N5 K367 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1523097471
Summary
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 crediting a more effective police force for its efforts, Karmen also emphasizes the decline of the crack epidemic, skyrocketing incarceration rates, favorable demographic trends, a healthy economy, an influx of hard working and law abiding immigrants, a rise in college enrollment, and an unexpected outbreak of improved behavior by young men growing up in poverty stricken neighborhoods. New York Murder Mystery is the most authoritative study to date of why crime rates rise and fall.
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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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