Conklin (Tufts U.) examines the rapid and sustained decline in the crime rate which occurred in the 1990s, focusing on the reasons why there was so little publi

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abateme

From the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places

Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have