The International Crime Drop

The International Crime Drop
Author: Jan van Dijk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113729146X


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Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine activity theory. It analyses the effect of post WW2 crime booms which triggered a universal improvement in security across the Western world.


The International Crime Drop
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Jan van Dijk
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-14 - Publisher: Springer

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Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspect
The Great American Crime Decline
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Franklin E. Zimring
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abateme
Fixing Broken Windows
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: George L. Kelling
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Cites successful examples of community-based policing.
The World of Crime
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Jan Van Dijk
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-21 - Publisher: SAGE Publications

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"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more
The Crime Drop in America
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Alfred Blumstein
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Top criminologists explain the reasons for the drop in violent crime in America.