Losing Legitimacy
Subtitle: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America (Crime & Society)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813334516
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Social history; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Sociology; Social Science; USA; General; Social Science / General; United states; Criminology; Sociology - General
First sentence: From the end of World War II until the early 1990s, the number of crimes committed in the streets of America skyrocketed.