Understanding Crime Trends: Workshop Report. Prepublication copy
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Dec. 02, 2008
ANNOTATION: Issues related to the analysis of crime trends are discussed. Papers contained in this report are: “Introduction” by Richard Rosenfeld and Arthur Goldberger; “Factors Contributing to U.S. Crime Trends” by Alfred Blumstein and Rosenfeld; “Gender and Violence in the United States: Trends in Offending and Victimization” by Karen Heimer and Janet L. Lauritsen; “Crime and Neighborhood Change” by Jeffrey Fagan; “An Empirical Assessment of the Contemporary Crime Trends Puzzle: A Modest Step Toward a More Comprehensive Research Agenda” by Eric P. Baumer; “Forecasting Crime: A City-Level Analysis” by John V. Pepper; and “On the Use of Aggregate Crime Repressions in Policy Evaluation” by Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers.
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