VOLUME 88/ISSUE 4/ SUMMER 1998

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