*Marked by Time*

The author is Robert J, Sampson, and the subtitle is How Social Change has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans, from Harvard University Press.  Excerpt:

…[for part of Chicago]..the chance of being arrested in life among people born in the mid-1980s is more than double that of those born just a decade later, in the mid-1990s.  This large arrest inequality does not arise from early-life individual, family, or local neighborhood characteristics.  It arises from the larger and highly divergent socio-historical contexts in which the children grew through adolescence into adulthood.

The particular story focuses on guns, death, and lead exposure, though I wonder whether the in-sample implied elasticities are validated out of sample.  Nonetheless an interesting book.