Crime Is Not the Problem Lethal Violence in America

Name: Crime Is Not the Problem Lethal Violence in America
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ISBN: 9780195131055

ISBN-10: 0195131053

ISBN-13: 9780195131055

Edition: 1999

Authors: Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

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In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compared to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent crime, American crime rates are comparable--even lower, in some cases. Only when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace other Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. London and New York City have nearly the same number of robberies and burglaries each year, but robbers and burglars kill 54 victims in New York for every victim death in London. Why are the risks so much greater…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Studies in Crime and Public Policy


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The American Difference



What Americans Fear



Violence and the Growth of Crime



Transnational Patterns



American Lethal Violence a Profile



New Perspectives on African-American Violence



Correlates and Causes



on Causes and Prevention



Firearms and Lethal Violence



on Mass Media Effects



Only in America? Illicit Drugs and the Death Rate from Violence



Prevention



Lethal Violence and the Criminal Law


Conclusion



Strategies of Prevention



Explaining Distributions of Violence Versus Levels of Violence



Assault in New York City and London



Patterns of Three Violent Crimes in the United States



Race and Lethal Violence: a Five-City Comparison



Studies of Mass Communications and Homicide



Drugs and Homicide in the District of Columbia: a Research Note


References


Index