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  • LOSING LEGITIMACY
    GARY LAFREE
    In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanations based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or sl...

    $1,179.00

  • CRIMINOLOGY THEORY AND TERRORISM
    JOSHUA D. FREILICH AND GARY LAFREE
    Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics. Therefore, our focus in this book on criminological conceptual frameworks and empirical studies that engage terrorism and responses to it is unique. We in...

    $1,279.00

  • PUTTING TERRORISM IN CONTEXT
    GARY LAFREE / LAURA DUGAN / ERIN MILLER
    This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers demonstrate how a very small number of terrorist attacks have had an outsized effect on attitudes and policies toward terrorism. The...

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