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Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America

Author: Franklin E Zimring; Gordon Hawkins
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Studies in crime and public policy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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