Talk:Crime drop
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[edit]Hi. I plan to rename this article to Crime drop during the 1990s to 2010s. --Sm8900 (talk) 18:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Scope of the article
[edit]Hi WikiDan68, You are right in the sense that currently the article’s focus is the period since the 1990s. But several criminologists say that for understanding the phenomenon it is important having a broader perspective: In time and geographically. With this, new explanations rise. Also a link to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #16 emerges: "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions“. However, I wrote the german version of the article, including these broader views: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriminalitätsrückgang and I will continue extending the english version similarly. The question is the size of the steps: Probably it is better adding much more in one change for having a more "harmonic" article in all transition phases?--Pakwesi (talk) 08:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Pakwesi: If the overall history of crime since the middle ages is important to understand the context of the current phenomenon, it can be discussed in an appropriate section (maybe "Historical context"), but to change the lede to incorporate that information shifts the focus of the article too significantly. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:39, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
- @WikiDan61: Ok, then I will start/continue in e.g. "Historical context". Btw: I am not an english native speaker but give my best to write decent english. Improvements of my sentences may be necessary and are very welcome, of course :-)
- @Pakwesi: I like this solution better. Thanks! Nice consensus-building! WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
- @WikiDan61: Ok, then I will start/continue in e.g. "Historical context". Btw: I am not an english native speaker but give my best to write decent english. Improvements of my sentences may be necessary and are very welcome, of course :-)
- I was at an archeological conference where this was discussed. The problem with this argument about violent crime is it ignores the number of people who died in wars. “Crime” is dropping but homicide- the killing of humans- is not. In fact the wide spread peace in Eurppe since 1945 probably explains the blip in violent crime from 1960s- 1990s Jabberwoch (talk) 03:44, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
Dead Reference link
[edit]The link provided in reference 5 and 6 is dead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C00:2615:400:E0F0:FEF8:B88A:1140 (talk) 19:27, 7 July 2020 (UTC)