
VOLUME 88/ISSUE 4/ SUMMER 1998
Symposium: Why Is Crime Decreasing?
Foreword
Jeremy Travis 1173
Explaining Recent Trends in U.S. Homicide Rates
Alfred Blumstein and Richard Rosenfeld 1175
Declining Crime Rates: Insiders’ View of the New York
City Story
George L. Kelling and William J. Bratton 1217
The Improbable Transformation of Inner-City
Neighborhoods:
Crime, Violence, Drugs, and Youth in the 1990s
Richard Curtis 1233
Declining Homicide in New York City: A Tale of Two
Trends
Jeffrey Fagan, Franklin E. Zimring, and June Kim 1277
Social Institutions and the Crime “Bust” of the 1990s
Gary LaFree 1325
Alcohol and Homicide in the United States 1934-1995—
Or One Reason Why U.S. Rates of Violence May Be
Going Down
Robert Nash Parker and Randi S. Cartmill 1369
Asymmetrical Causation and Criminal Desistance
Christopher Uggen and Irving Piliavin 1399
Understanding the Time Path of Crime
John J. Donahue 1423
Volunteerism and the Decline of Violent Crime
Warren Friedman 1453
Effective Law-Enforcement Techniques for Reducing
Crime
John N. Gallo 1475
Which Homicides Decreased? Why?
Michael D. Maltz 1489
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