Vol. 88 No. 4, June 1998
Index
- FOREWORD.
- Explaining recent trends in U.S. homicide rates.
- Declining crime rates: insiders' views of the New York City story.
- The improbable transformation of inner-city neighborhoods: crime, violence, drugs, and youth in the 1990s.
- Declining homicide in New York City: a tale of two trends.
- Social institutions and the crime "bust" of the 1990s.
- Alcohol and homicide in the United States 1934-1995 - or one reason why U.S. rates of violence may be going down.
- Asymmetrical causation and criminal desistance.
- Understanding the time path of crime.
- Volunteerism and the decline of violent crime.
- Effective law-enforcement techniques for reducing crime.
- Which homicides decreased? Why?