Recent Historical Studies of Crime and Crime Control in the United States

During recent years there has been a growing interest in quantitative research in criminology. This phenomenon has been reflected in a growing nutnoer of machine readable datasets becoming available which contain variables of interest to criminology. At such times it can be helpful for those people involvea in the archiving of machine readable data to become at least aware of some of the relevant literature. Monkkonen's article is a readable bibliographic essay in the field. Editor.