Violence is amongst the primary concerns of communities around the world and research
has demonstrated links between violence and the illicit drug trade, particularly in urban …

Rates of street crime have dropped substantially over the past several decades, but
important nuances of this decline are underappreciated and the reasons for it remain …

A popular perception is that immigration causes higher crime rates. Yet, historical and
contemporary research finds that at the individual level, immigrants are not more inclined to …

ContextSince the early 1980s, the black-white gap in life expectancy at birth increased
sharply and subsequently declined, but the causes of these changes have not been …

This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of
these into street gangs in the United States. The author traces the emergence of these …

Numerous social indicators turned negative for Blacks in the 1980s and rebounded a
decade later. We explore whether crack cocaine explains these patterns. Absent a direct …

Objectives. As a case study of the impact of universal versus targeted interventions on
population health and health inequalities, we used simulations to examine (1) whether …

Crime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-
documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime …

An important theoretical issue in the study of criminal victimization focuses on state
dependence or the extent to which prior victimization causally affects subsequent …

Methodological issues that must be considered in doing research on the New York City
crime drop include the choice of a spatial unit of analysis, the choice of a mathematical …