@article{ref1,
title="Declining Violent Crime Rates in the 1990s: Predicting Crime Booms and Busts",
journal="Annual review of sociology",
year="1999",
author="Lafree, G.",
volume="25",
number="",
pages="145-168",
abstract="The United States in the 1990s has experienced the greatest sustained decline in violent crime rates since World War II-even though rates thus far have not fallen as rapidly as they increased during the crime boom of the 1960s and early 1970s. I review a set of exogenous and policy-related explanations for the earlier crime boom and for the crime bust of the 1990s. I argue that our understanding of crime trends is hampered by a lack of longitudinal analysis and by ahistorical approaches. I identify a set of questions, concepts, and research opportunities raised by taking a more comprehensive look at crime waves.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0360-0572",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}