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Crime, Punishment, and Social Disorder: Crime Rates and Trends in Public Opinion over More Than Three Decades Get access

James D. Wright and others
in Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972
Published: 26 August 2012
... of GSS data. In addition, for the first time since Crime and Punishment was published, the United States has recently experienced a sharp decline in crime rates that began in about 1994 and continued for a decade. Thus, the chapter also explores the apparent effects of declining crime...