The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-272

  Zimring, Franklin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive police; Crime; Crime control; Crime rate drop; Drug control; Drug violence; Hard drug use; New York City; NYPD; Zero tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922318650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844425.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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