01659nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000082829 StDuBDS 20150804193921.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120418s2007 enka fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199944132 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HV6783 .Z56 2007 364.97309049 23 Zimring, Franklin E. The great American crime decline [electronic resource] / Franklin E. Zimring. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007. 1 online resource (xi, 258 p.) : ill. Studies in crime and public policy Includes bibliographical references and index. Many theories, from the routine to the bizarre, have been offered to explain the crime decline of the 1990s - record levels of imprisonment, an abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic, more police using better tactics, or even the effects of legalized abortion. And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. Description based on print version record. Crime United States History 20th century. United States Economic conditions 1981-2001. United States Social conditions 1980- Print version 9780195181159 Studies in crime and public policy. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181159.001.0001 36610 36610