Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Uniform Crime Reports for the United States
Author: The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America
Author: Barry LatzerPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039305
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that it frightened virtually all Americans and prompted significant alterations in everyday behaviors and even lifestyles. The risk of being mugged was a concern when Americans chose places to live and schools for their children, selected commuter routes to work, and planned their leisure activities. In some locales, people were afraid to leave their dwellings at any time, day or night, even to go to the market. In the worst of the post-1960s crime wave, Americans spent part of each day literally looking back over their shoulders. The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America is the first book to comprehensively examine this important phenomenon over the entire postwar era. It combines a social history of the United States with the insights of criminology and examines the relationship between rising and falling crime and such historical developments as the postwar economic boom, suburbanization and the rise of the middle class, baby booms and busts, war and antiwar protest, the urbanization of minorities, and more.
Crime in the United States 1999
Author: United States Government Printing OfficePublisher: Justice Department
ISBN: 9780160504891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Author: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
State Rankings 1998
Author: Kathleen O'Leary MorganPublisher: Morgan Quitno Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
United States of America V. Story
Author: The State of Criminal Justice
Author: American Bar Association. Section of Criminal JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Punishment for War Crimes
Author: United Nations Information OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : War crimes
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime
Author: Henry H. BrownsteinPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book is written in the form of stories that individually and collectively describe violence and violent crime in America in the twentieth century. Because violence means different things to different people, this book attempts to show the many ways in which we as a society think about violence and how these perceptions have developed in our society during the twentieth century. Weaving a personal narrative style together with official statistics, media reports, research findings, and first-hand accounts, the author illustrates the American experience and the social construction of various forms of violence. Since the language of social constructionism is often difficult to understand, this book utilizes simple explanations of how violence and violent crime are socially constructed. This book succeeds in making an abstract but important theory accessible by grounding these explanations in specific historical and biographical experiences of American society. For anyone interested in understanding violence.