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The City That Became Safe

Franklin E. Zimring

Why did crime fall so far in New York City, and what can other American cities learn from it?

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Author
Franklin E. Zimring

Why read it

  • You will learn to test popular explanations for falling crime, such as changing demographics and drug markets, against the evidence
  • You will notice that cities usually rise and fall together, which makes any city that breaks from the pattern worth studying
  • You will look past the public relations that put police at the center of the crime drop story and weigh the evidence

Who it is for

  • A city official comparing crime strategies from other places
  • A voter who keeps hearing one simple story about falling crime
  • A criminology student reading the evidence on the great crime decline

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. PART ONE: Anatomy of a Crime Decline
  3. Chapter 1. The Crime Decline: Some Vital Statistics
  4. Chapter 2. A Safe City Now?
  5. PART TWO: In Search of the New York Difference
  6. Chapter 3. Continuity and Change in New York City
  7. Chapter 4. Of Demography and Drugs: Testing Two 1990s Theories of Crime Causation
  8. Chapter 5. Policing in New York City
  9. PART THREE: Lessons and Questions
  10. Chapter 6. Open Questions
  11. Chapter 7. Lessons for American Crime Control
  12. Chapter 8. Crime and the City
  13. Appendix A. Staten Island: Crime, Policing, and Population in New York’s Fifth Borough
  14. Appendix B. The Invisible Economics of New York City Incarceration
  15. Appendix C. Studies of New York Police Factors
  16. Appendix D. Sources for Data on New York City Crime, Arrests, and Police Staffng
  17. Reference
  18. A
  19. B
  20. C
  21. D
  22. E
  23. F
  24. G
  25. H
  26. I
  27. J
  28. K
  29. L
  30. M
  31. O
  32. P
  33. Q
  34. R
  35. S
  36. T

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