A formal decomposition of declining youth crime in Denmark

Declining Participation in Christian Youth

Editorial: Schizophrenia and crime in Denmark.

Declining interest in forensic psychiatry: recent developments in Denmark.

It is postulated that there is a declining interest in forensic psychiatry in some countries, e.g. in Denmark. Can this decline be conclusively demonstrated? If so, what are the explanations? It is postulated that it is due not to decreasing interest on the part of psychiatrists, but to a change in attitude on the part of those who run the judicial system. It is further maintained that the esse...

Youth, guns, and violent crime.

Young people are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that recent cohorts of youth have been composed of "superpredators" who have little regard for human life. The evidence, however, suggests that other factors are responsible for recent increases in youth gun violence. This article analyzes the extent and causes of youth violen...

DECLINING VIOLENT CRIME RATES IN THE 1990S: Predicting Crime Booms and Busts

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 understandin...