Franklin Zimring Explains How New York Beat Crime

Scientific American, August 2011 by Franklin E. Zimring
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Perhaps the most optimistic lesson to take from New York’s experience is that high rates of homicides and muggings are not hardwired into a city’s populations, cultures and institutions…. it demonstrates that the environment in which people are raised does not doom them to a lifetime outside the law—and that neither do their genes.