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Losing Legitimacy : Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America by Gary Lafree (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAvalon Publishing
ISBN-100813334500
ISBN-139780813334509
eBay Product ID (ePID)213529
Product Key Features
Book TitleLosing Legitimacy : Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicSociology / General, General, Criminology
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science
AuthorGary Lafree
Book SeriesCrime and Society Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-013957
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal364.973
SynopsisIn the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. Biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these, In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanations based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust, economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account for the modest crime declines of the 1990s.
LC Classification NumberHV6789.L34 1998
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