Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction--Richard Rosenfeld and Arthur S. Goldberger -- 2 Factors Contributing to U.S. Crime Trends--Alfred Blumstein and Richard Rosenfeld -- 3 Gender and Violence in the United States: Trends in Offending and Victimization--Karen Heimer and Janet L. Lauritsen -- 4 Crime and Neighborhood Change--Jeffrey Fagan -- 5 An Empirical Assessment of the Contemporary Crime Trends Puzzle: A Modest Step Toward a More Comprehensive Research Agenda--Eric P. Baumer -- 6 Forecasting Crime: A City-Level Analysis--John V. Pepper -- 7 On the Use of Aggregate Crime Regressions in Policy Evaluation--Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers.