The International Crime Drop: New Directions in Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Global Overview: International Trends in Victimization and Recorded Crime....Pages 11-36
Crime Trends in Western Europe according to Official Statistics from 1990 to 2007....Pages 37-75
The Case of Australia and New Zealand....Pages 76-102
Trends in Violence against Women: Some Good News and Some Bad News....Pages 103-133
The Crime Drop in ‘Non-Western’ Countries: A Review of Homicide Data....Pages 134-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Underlying Patterns within the England and Wales Crime Drop....Pages 159-181
Crime, Inequality, and Change in England and Wales....Pages 182-199
The Crime Drop in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the Economy and Imprisonment on American and European Burglary Rates....Pages 200-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Security and the Drop in Car Theft in the United States....Pages 231-249
Self-limiting Crime Waves....Pages 250-267
The Crime Drop Discourse — or the Illusion of Uniform Continental Trends: Switzerland as a Contrasting Case....Pages 268-278
Crime in the Broad Sweep of History....Pages 279-285
Towards a Comprehensive Research Plan on Opportunity Theory and the Crime Falls....Pages 286-299
Conclusions — Understanding International Crime Trends: A Summing Up....Pages 300-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-333