Recent longitudinal analyses of policing resources, both cross- and within-jurisdictional studies, raise serious questions about the explanatory power of the public choice and conflict perspectives of crime control. The present study, which examines the determinants of police expenditures within Chicago from 1904 to 1958, indicates that idiosyncratic historical processes may temper the influence of environmental factors on the capacity of municipalities to provide crime control.
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