Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America / Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimring, Franklin E., author.

Hawkins, Gordon, 1919-2004, author.

Series:

Studies in crime and public policy.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in crime and public policy

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violent crimes--United States.

Violent crimes.

Violence--United States.

Violence.

Violent crimes--United States--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work aims to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. The authors seek to clarify the causes of this by looking at the proximate causes and they discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The American Difference; 1. What Americans Fear; 2. Violence and the Growth of Crime: Some Lessons from Recent History; 3. Transnational Patterns; 4. American Lethal Violence: A Profile; 5. New Perspectives on African-American Violence; II: Correlates and Causes; 6. On Causes and Prevention; 7. Firearms and Lethal Violence; 8. On Mass Media Effects; 9. Only in America? Illicit Drugs and the Death Rate from Violence; III: Prevention; 10. Lethal Violence and the Criminal Law; 11. Strategies of Prevention

Appendix 1. Explaining Distributions of Violence versus Levels of ViolenceAppendix 2. Assault in New York City and London; Appendix 3. Patterns of Three Violent Crimes in the United States; Appendix 4. Race and Lethal Violence: A Five-City Comparison; Appendix 5. Studies of Mass Communications and Homicide; Appendix 6. Drugs and Homicide in the District of Columbia: A Research Note; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Bibliography: p253-259. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771881-7

1-280-53058-8

0-19-802709-5

OCLC:

476006767