RUST BELT TRACKER

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Rust Belt Definition

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Crime Rates

• 2018 UCR Summary

  • Violent Crime, Murder Rates Receding Slowing Across Major Rust Belt and Ohio Cities (pdf)

  • Supplementary Tables (.xls)

  • WKBN.com: YSU analyst reviews crime report: See how local communities fared (11 October 2019)

  • WKBN.com: Youngstown police chief offers explanation on declining homicide rate (11 October 2019)

• Analyses​

  • McFarland, S., & Rogers, R. L. (2019). Current trends in homicide: Issues in Ohio and the Midwest. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Baltimore, MD, March 27-30.​