fwiw while i know everyone says this and there’s some truth to it if you’re looking for mono causal explanations or grand theory, my unpopular opinion is that we sort of have a pretty good idea link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It? - American Journal of Criminal Justice
Criminology has not systematically identified the cause or causes of perhaps the most seminal event in crime and justice of the last half century: the crime decline of the 1990s. This paper uses a cau...
