Crime Trends in Europe from 1990 to 1996: How Europe Illustrates the Limits of the American Experience |
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Authors: | Martin Killias Marcelo F. Aebi |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Forensic Science and Criminology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;(2) University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | In the Council of Europe's European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, crime and other relevant data are assembled for 36 European countries and the years 1990 to 1996. The data show that crime trends differed from those in the United States. Particularly drug and violent offences continued to increase until the end of the period under consideration (1996). Most of the theoretical explanations of crime trends currently in vogue in the United States seem of little help in understanding current European trends. Generally the most valid approaches seem to be routine-activities and situational explanations. |
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Keywords: | comparative research crime trends criminological theories |
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