Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385230915 ISBN 13: 9780385230919

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

“. . . [O]f value to anyone interested in understanding crime and trying to stop it.”—Governor Mario M. Cuomo

This explosive and thought-provoking investigation goes to the heart of America’s fear of crime, takes on the most common myths, and sets them straight. How safe are we? Here are Crimewarp’s startling conclusions:
· The odds are twice as great that you will commit suicide this year than be murdered.
· It is 32 times more likely that you will be involved in a car crash than become the victim of a violent street crime.
· A woman is twice as likely to die of heart disease than be raped.

Criminologist Georgette Bennett uses the latest statistics to predict these and other dramatic changes in future of crime.

“[This] highly regarded book analyzes the ripple effect of intersecting new social forces in changing the nature of crime and society’s changing responses to crime.”—The Washington Post

“A groundbreaking book, solidly researched, but easy to digest.”—Kirkus Reviews

About this title

About the Author:

Georgette Bennett is the founder and president of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. She is an author, consultant, lecturer, marketer, and broadcast journalist who has authored four books and more than 50 articles in publications ranging from the scholarly to the popular. Her book Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She has won two national awards from the American Society for Public Administration, and the 1997 Interfaith Gold Medallion from the International Council of Christians and Jews.

From Library Journal:

The common view of crime is that it is committed primarily by young urban males who engage in predatory acts for short-term gains. Bennett predicts that the future holds more white-collar crime, more crime by women and older persons, and decriminalization of consensual crimes such as prostitution and gambling. This, she says, will lead to development of new crime-fighting strategies and less emphasis on civil liberties. If she is correct, the present trend toward conservative policies of crime control will continue. She reviews these trends, called "crimewarps," in a smooth, journalistic style that will appeal to general readers interested in provocative predictions.John Broderick, Sociology Dept., Stonehill Coll . , North Easton, Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385230915
• ISBN 13: 9780385230919
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 602
• Editor: Bennett Georgette