The International Crime Drop

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jan van Dijk, Andromachi Tseloni, Graham Farrell

      Pages 1-8

3. International Trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Global Overview: International Trends in Victimization and Recorded Crime

      • Jan van Dijk, Andromachi Tseloni

      Pages 11-36

   3. Crime Trends in Western Europe according to Official Statistics from 1990 to 2007

      • Marcelo F. Aebi, Antonia Linde

      Pages 37-75

   4. The Case of Australia and New Zealand

      • Pat Mayhew

      Pages 76-102

   5. Trends in Violence against Women: Some Good News and Some Bad News

      • Kristiina Kangaspunta, Ineke Haen Marshall

      Pages 103-133

   6. The Crime Drop in ‘Non-Western’ Countries: A Review of Homicide Data

      • Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Giulia Mugellini

      Pages 134-155

4. Crime Analysis and Patterns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Underlying Patterns within the England and Wales Crime Drop

      • Andrew Britton, Chris Kershaw, Sarah Osborne, Kevin Smith

      Pages 159-181

   3. Crime, Inequality, and Change in England and Wales

      • Louise Grove, Andromachi Tseloni, Nick Tilley

      Pages 182-199

   4. The Crime Drop in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the Economy and Imprisonment on American and European Burglary Rates

      • Richard Rosenfeld, Steven F. Messner

      Pages 200-228

5. New Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Security and the Drop in Car Theft in the United States

      • Shuryo Fujita, Michael Maxfield

      Pages 231-249

   3. Self-limiting Crime Waves

      • Jan van Dijk, Ben Vollaard

      Pages 250-267

   4. The Crime Drop Discourse — or the Illusion of Uniform Continental Trends: Switzerland as a Contrasting Case

      • Martin Killias, Bruno Lanfranconi

      Pages 268-278

   5. Crime in the Broad Sweep of History

      • Marcus Felson

      Pages 279-285

   6. Towards a Comprehensive Research Plan on Opportunity Theory and the Crime Falls

      • Andromachi Tseloni, Graham Farrell, Nick Tilley, Louise Grove, Rebecca Thompson, Laura Garius

      Pages 286-299

6. Conclusions — Understanding International Crime Trends: A Summing Up

   1. Conclusions — Understanding International Crime Trends: A Summing Up

      • Jan van Dijk, Andromachi Tseloni, Graham Farrell

      Pages 300-320

7. Back Matter

   Pages 321-333

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Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine activity theory. It analyses the effect of post WW2 crime booms which triggered a universal improvement in security across the Western world.

• crime
• crime analysis
• violence

"The importance of [this book's] content and the quality of the information given on crime trends should not be overlooked. For students wishing to look into ideas for theses and theorists looking to make an impact on future crime prevention policy, this book is an invaluable and accessible stepping stone and point of reference to finding answers to an important phenomenon. The International Crime Drop is a much needed consolidation of useful crime statistics and analyses, with figures that are ripe for interpretation and development, and a great deal of scope to influence criminological thinking." - The Internet Journal of Criminology

• Human Security and Safety, International Victimology Institute, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Jan Dijk

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Andromachi Tseloni

• Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, Canada

  Graham Farrell

• School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada

  Graham Farrell

MARCELO F. AEBI University of Lausanne, Switzerland ANDREW BRITTON Home Office Statistics, UK MARCUS FELSON Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Texas, USA ANNA ALVAZZI DEL FRATE Small Arms Survey, Switzerland SHURYO FUJITA John Jay College, USA LAURA GARIUS PhD Student, Loughborough University, UK LOUISE GROVE Lecturer of Criminology and Social Policy, University of Loughborough, UK KRISTIINA KANGASPUNTA UNICRI, Italy CHRIS KERSHAW Home Office Statistics, UK MARTIN KILLIAS Academy of Experimental Criminology Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland BRUNO LANFRANCONI Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (Suva), Switzerland ANTONIA LINDE Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) and University of Lausanne, Switzerland INEKE HAEN MARSHALL Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University, USA MICHAEL MAXFIELD Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College, USA PAT MAYHEW London, UK STEVEN F. MESSNER Distinguished Teaching Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Albany, USA SARAH OSBORNE Home Office Statistics, UK RICHARD ROSENFELD Curators Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA KEVIN SMITH Home Office Statistics, UK REBECCA THOMPSON Nottingham Trent University, UK NICK TILLEY Professor in the Department of Security and Crime Science, Jill Dando Institute, University College London, UK GIULIA MUGELLINI TRANSCRIME Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, Italy BEN VOLLAARD Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Tillburg University, The Netherlands

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