Think about how crime rates have increased and decreased over the last century. Identify one decade in which crime rates increased, and one decade in which crime rates decreased. How might you explain each of these trends, given the decade in which each occurred?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary for this depending upon the decades selected. Generally, however, students should at least include economic patterns, wartime (or not), quality of data collection on crime, etc.

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