Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America
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ISBN: 0385230915 / Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March 1989
Attempts to project the patterns that crime and crime-fighting techniques will follow in the next 20 to 50 years through a study of the nation's current demographic trends and shifts in economics, religion, technology, education, and the legal system
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“. . . [O]f value to anyone interested in understanding crime and trying to stop it.”—Governor Mario M. Cuomo This explosive and thought-provoking investigation goes to the heart of America’s fear of crime, takes on the most common myths, and sets them straight. How safe are we? Here are Crimewarp’s startling conclusions:• The odds are twice as great that you will commit suicide this year than be murdered. • It is 32 times more likely that you will be involved in a car crash than become the victim of a violent street crime. • A woman is twice as likely to die of heart disease than be raped.Criminologist Georgette Bennett uses the latest statistics to predict these and other dramatic changes in future of crime. “[This] highly regarded book analyzes the ripple effect of intersecting new social forces in changing the nature of crime and society’s changing responses to crime.”—The Washington Post“A groundbreaking book, solidly researched, but easy to digest.”—Kirkus Reviews
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