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Explore Gary LaFree's groundbreaking analysis of America's street crime explosion over five decades in this Crime and Society series volume from Routledge. LaFree examines why crime rates surged eightfold in just fifty years, with dramatic increases concentrated in a single decade beginning in the early 1960s, and why these rises disproportionately affected African American communities. The book challenges conventional explanations based on biology, psychology, and slow-moving social indicators, instead drawing on unique half-century data to reveal how the decline of social institutions shaped crime patterns. This authoritative work provides essential insights into the historical patterning and racial dimensions of America's crime crisis, making it vital reading for students and scholars of criminology, sociology, and American social history.

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Routledge's Crime and Society series book examining street crime increases across fifty years of American history.

Gary LaFree's data-driven argument that social institutions, rather than biological or psychological factors, explain rapid crime rate changes.

Addresses the disproportionate impact of the crime explosion on African American communities during the 1960s onwards.

Challenges conventional criminology theories by analysing the speed and timing of crime surge patterns using unique longitudinal data.

Essential reading for criminology, sociology, and social science students studying institutional decline and its societal consequences.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
12 November 1999
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16 February 2007

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