New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s

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NYU Press, 2006 - 336 pages

Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a local and a national context for New York's plunging crime rate, Karmen tests and debunks the many self-serving explanations for the decline. While crediting a more effective police force for its efforts, Karmen also emphasizes the decline of the crack epidemic, skyrocketing incarceration rates, favorable demographic trends, a healthy economy, an influx of hard working and law abiding immigrants, a rise in college enrollment, and an unexpected outbreak of improved behavior by young men growing up in poverty stricken neighborhoods. New York Murder Mystery is the most authoritative study to date of why crime rates rise and fall.

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Contents

NYC consumption tax on beer and liquor went into
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There has never been a proven connection between the state
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Welfare Rolls are per fiscal year Includes AFDC Home
200
Hispanic unemployment rates were not tracked until 1981
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Annual job gains or losses are in thousands
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Includes all high school graduates intending to go to
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Demographic changes take place very slowly But the steady buildup
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The Anatomy of a Crime Wave
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Gun arrests includes felony arrests for other dangerous weapons
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Were the Citys Troublemakers Shipped Upstate by a
141
Were More New Yorkers Just Saying No to
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NYPD did not release arrest breakdowns during 1983 1984
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Descriptions of the Different Data Sets
273
REFERENCES
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About the author (2006)

Andrew Karmen is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s (NYU, 2000) and Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology, Tenth Edition (Cengage, 2019).

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