The Crime Paradox

We think we know a lot about crime. Our news headlines are filled with horror stories, while true crime podcasts top the charts. But the reality is that most of our assumptions are just not supported by the data - from the idea that it rises in hard times to the suggestion that longer prison sentences and more police officers on the street will always help. What are the true causes of lawbreaking, and how can we tackle them?

In The Crime Paradox, Nick Morgan analyses the statistics and confronts the media hysteria. How can we explain the late-twentieth-century global crime wave - and what might we do to might make our streets safer for good?