America’s Safest CityWinner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Since the mid 1990s, the fast growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Yet, like many of Americas seemingly idyllic suburbs, Amherst is by no means without crimeespecially when it comes to adolescents. In Americas Safest City,