Preface
Part I: Anatomy of a Crime Decline
Chapter 1: The Crime Decline - Some Vital Statistics
Chapter 2: A Safe City Now?
Part II: In Search of the New York Difference
Chapter 3: Continuity and Change in New York City
Chapter 4: Of Demography and Drugs: Testing Two 1990s Theories of
Crime Causation
Chapter 5: Policing in New York City
Part III: Lessons and Questions
Chapter 6: Open Questions
Chapter 7: Lessons for American Crime Control
Chapter 8: Crime and the City
Appendix A: Staten Island: Crime, Policing and Population in New
York's Fifth Borough
Appendix B: The Invisible Economics of New York City
Incarceration
Appendix C: New York City Arrest Data and Borough Enforcement
Staffing
References
Index
Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, he has been the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law. Professor Zimring's recent books include The Great American Crime Decline and The Next Frontier (with David T. Johnson) .
"Provocative and hopeful." --New York Review of Books
"Accessible to both undergraduates and postgraduates, this is an
excellent statistical study. The reader should not expect the
master code that unlocks all of the secrets of New York's crime
decline; however, The City that Became Safe should be considered a
standard work on this fascinating phenomenon." --New York Journal
of Books
"One of the best studies of the psychology of crime, and of cities,
that I have ever read."
--Adam Gopnik, newyorker.com
"The City That Became Safe" is thoughtful, provocative, and quite
brilliant. Zimring demonstrates that big cities can cut crime and
reduce incarceration at the same time. New Yorkers, and all city
dwellers, will feel safer after reading this powerful book."
--Herbert Sturz, Open Society Foundations
"Franklin Zimring's examination of the astonishing New York City
crime decline is fascinating and totally convincing. Reading this
brilliant book is mandatory for criminologists and students of
policing, and it's a damn good idea for everyone else." --Albert
Alschuler, Northwestern University Law School
"Franklin Zimring boldly takes on one of the most important yet
ill-understood social facts of the late twentieth century: why
crime dropped like a stone for almost twenty years in New York. He
hones in on the significant portion of crime that is 'situational
and contingent' rather than rooted in urban structure, and
identifies police policies and practices that go a long way toward
explaining crime rates fell so precipitously. At the beginning of
the 1990s New
York was in trouble; now it is back, in large degree because of the
story told here." --Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University
"A doubly profound book-in its withering demonstration that the New
York City crime drop undoes much of the conventional social science
wisdom about the embeddedness of American criminality, and in its
optimistic lesson about the power of social policy to alter the
supposedly endemic nature of urban crime." --Robert Weisberg,
Stanford University
"The City That Became Safe sets the standard for reasoned analysis
of one of the most important public-policy issues of our time."
--Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"This is a wonderful, startling, and important book. It is a
masterpiece of statistical rigor; but also of insight and common
sense. All serious scholars of modern urban life, and, hopefully,
all policy makers and criminologists, should read and absorb the
lessons of this profound exploration of the riddles of crime and
punishment in America." --Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford
University
"Using an array of statistics and a meticulous approach, Zimring,
one of the nation's preeminent criminologists, convincingly argues
that an identifiable human strategy does deserve most of the
credit, but it was neither a single approach nor a single elected
official. This is a model policy study on a crucial community
concern demonstrating that, when it comes to public safety,
government can make a difference. Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
"Zimring does a wonderful job letting the statistics tell the story
of New York City's drop in crime... The result is a study that adds
much to our knowledge of crime and crime policy while reminding us
just how much we still have to learn. Recommended for all
practicing criminologists and graduate students studying in the
field." --International Social Science Review
"This book advances the discussion of urban crime policy by an
order of magnitude for academics... [and] criminal justice
instructors will need this book as an antidote for the plethora of
'it wasn't really the police' books available until now." --Journal
of Urban Affairs
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