"In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. Biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these"

* Understanding Postwar Crime Trends * Riding the Wave: Street Crime Trends in Postwar America * Offender Characteristics and Crime Trends in Postwar America * Evaluating Common Explanations of Crime * Crime and Social Institutions * Crime and American Political Institutions * Crime and American Economic Institutions * Crime and Changes in the American Family * Institutional Responses to the Legitimacy Crisis: Criminal Justice, Education, and Welfare * Crime and Institutional Legitimacy in Postwar America