CHAPTER EIGHT
SUBURBAN DIFFERENCE
Each year the FBI produces a report on crime. The 2005 report, based on 2004 data, identified Camden, New Jersey, as the most dangerous city in the country, with a homicide rate 10 times the national average and a robbery rate 7 times the national average. The safest place was the Boston suburb of Newton, which had no homicides and the lowest crime rate in the entire nation. Both places are in Megalopolis, revealing that below the level of counties is a complex mosaic of very different places.
The reliance on county-level data provides a focus on political administrative areas with substantial degrees of political autonomy as well as observation units that remain stable over our 50-year period. This focus is ...
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