Understanding New York’s Crime Drop

<p>This book explores New York City’s historic crime drop over the past quarter of a century. New York City’s dramatic crime decline is a real brainteaser: no one predicted it and as of yet no one has explained it at least to the satisfaction of most social scientists who study crime trends.</p><p>Three strategic lessons emerge from the contributions to this volume on New York’s crime drop. It is suggested that future research should:</p><p>• go wide by putting New York in comparative context nationally and internationally;</p><p>• go long by putting New York’s recent experience in historical context;</p><p>• develop a strong ground game by investigating New York’s crime drop across multiple spatial units down to the street segment.</p><p>The contributors to <i>Understanding New York’s Crime Drop </i>aim to provoke expanded and sustained attention to crime trends in New York and elsewhere.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Justice Quarterly.</i></p>