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The rise and fall of violent crime in America / Barry Latzer.

By: Publisher: New York : Encounter Books, [2015]Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594038358 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.150973/090945 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6789 .L38 2015
Contents:
Preface -- World War II and its aftermath : crime in the 1940s -- The golden years : violent crime in the 1950s -- Ordeal : the great post-1960s crime rise -- The violence continues : America in the 1980s -- The great downturn : 1995 to the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: History and the study of crime -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- World War II and its aftermath : crime in the 1940s -- The golden years : violent crime in the 1950s -- Ordeal : the great post-1960s crime rise -- The violence continues : America in the 1980s -- The great downturn : 1995 to the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: History and the study of crime -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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