Declining violent crime rates in the 1990s: Predicting crime booms and busts

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 25, Issue , 1999, Pages 145-168

  LaFree, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ahistoricism; Crime theories; Crime trends; Crime waves; Longitudinal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033438424     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.25.1.145     Document Type: Article

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