Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not

By Steven D. Levitt. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, methodology): “Recently, a similar strategy was used by Fryer, Heaton, Levitt, and Murphy (2005) to measure the impact of crack cocaine on crime in U.”
Crime is the Problem: Homicide, Acquisitive Crime, and Economic Conditions (2009, methodology): “As controls for other crime determinants used in prior research on crime trends (Blumstein and Wallman 2005; Levitt 2004; Rosenfeld and Fornango 2007), the analysis includes the number of police officers per 100,000 population from the UCR; state prisoners per 100,000 population lagged one period,”
Under the Cover of Darkness: How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Activity (2015, neutral): “Prior evidence suggests this is effective, though police do more than simply arrest suspects, so the precise treatment is unclear (Levitt, 2004).”
Is Crime Contagious? (2007, neutral): “A third possibility is correlated effects—policing, schools, or other institutional characteristics of neighborhoods may matter for criminal behavior (Jencks and Mayer 1990; Levitt 1997, 2002; Sherman 2002; Lochner and Moretti 2004).”
Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 1974-2000 (2008, methodology): “However, if, as suggested in the prior OLS literature, elasticity is only 1.0-2.0 percent, then unemployment may have only a minor role to play, if any role at all, in the reduction in crime in the 1990s (Levitt 2004).”
Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “Inclusion of time-fixed effect is particularly important here, given that the large fluctuation in crime rates during 1990s cannot be fully accounted by variations in observed economic and demographic variables (Levitt 2004).”
Why Have Child Maltreatment and Child Victimization Declined (2006, background): “In the social scientific discussions about social trends in the 1990s, most of the attention has been given to the general decline in crime (Blumstein & Wallman, 2000; Conklin, 2003; Levitt, 2004; Rosenfeld, 2004).”
Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City (2006, neutral): “Levitt, S. (2004) “Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(1): 163-190. Monkkonen, Eric. (2001) Homicides in New York City 1797-1999” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ”