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crime waves  

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  • The term crime wave has two distinct (but related) meanings in criminological and popular discourse. The most familiar meaning associates the term with relatively rapid and abrupt upward (and subsequent downward) shifts in rates of crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Crime Waves]

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