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American Society of Criminology
Panel Criticizes City Crime Rankings
December 13th, 2008
A much-publicized annual ranking of American cities according to crime rates misleads the public and unfairly harms cities that can least afford the damage, according to several members of a panel of experts at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) at their Nov. 13 annual meeting. The rankings, which are compiled each year in a book now published by CQ Press, a Washington, D.C.-based division of SAGE Publications, ignore genuine risk factors in crime while hyping a false one, said Dr. Richard Rosenfeld, one of the panelists. The real risk factors, he said, are a person's age, lifestyle, and specific neighborhood of residence -- not the city in which he or she...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-12-13)
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