Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Global Overview: International Trends in Victimization and Recorded Crime

Chapter 3 Crime Trends in Western Europe according to Official Statistics from 1990 to 2007

Chapter 4 The Case of Australia and New Zealand

Chapter 6 The Crime Drop in ‘Non-Western’ Countries: A Review of Homicide Data

Chapter 7 Underlying Patterns within the England and Wales Crime Drop

Chapter 8 Crime, Inequality, and Change in England and Wales

Chapter 9 The Crime Drop in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the Economy and Imprisonment on American and European Burglary Rates

Chapter 10 Security and the Drop in Car Theft in the United States

Chapter 11 Self-limiting Crime Waves

Chapter 12 The Crime Drop Discourse — or the Illusion of Uniform Continental Trends: Switzerland as a Contrasting Case

Chapter 13 Crime in the Broad Sweep of History

Chapter 14 Towards a Comprehensive Research Plan on Opportunity Theory and the Crime Falls

Chapter 15 Conclusions — Understanding International Crime Trends: A Summing Up