Homicide is declining around the world – but why?
- Written by Mateus Renno Santos, Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
Homicide has gradually declined over three decades.simon jhuan/Shutterstock.comAmericans are currently living in one of the lowest crime periods ever – and so are many people in the rest of the world.
Following decades of increasing crime during the 1960s, ‘70s and '80s, U.S. homicide rates declined by almost 40% throughout the 1990s,...
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