Understanding crime trends
Subtitle: workshop report
By: 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
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780309125864
Subjects: Crime; Criminal statistics; Congresses; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Richard Rosenfeld -- and -- Arthur S. Goldberger; title: Factors contributing to U.S. crime trends  -- Alfred Blumstein -- and -- Richard Rosenfeld; title: Gender and violence in the United States: trends in offending and victimization  -- Karen Heimer -- and -- Janet L. Lauritsen; title: Crime and neighborhood change  -- Jeffrey Fagan; title: An empirical assessment of the contemporary crime trends puzzle: a modest step toward a more comprehensive research agenda  -- Eric P. Baumer; title: Forecasting crime: a city-level analysis  -- John V. Pepper; title: On the use of aggregate crime regressions in policy evaluation -- Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro,-- and-- David A. Rivers.