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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Franklin E Zimring; Gordon Hawkins |
| ISBN: | 019511065X 9780195110654 0195131053 9780195131055 |
| OCLC Number: | 41461383 |
| Description: | xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- App. 1. Explaining Distributions of Violence versus Levels of Violence -- App. 2. Assault in New York City and London -- App. 3. Patterns of Three Violent Crimes in the United States -- App. 4. Race and Lethal Violence: A Five-City Comparison -- App. 5. Studies of Mass Communications and Homicide -- App. 6. Drugs and Homicide in the District of Columbia: A Research Note. |
| Series Title: | Studies in crime and public policy. |
| Responsibility: | Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins. |
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