Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Zimring, Franklin E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in crime and public policy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2761651 |
Table of Contents:
- Studies in Crime and Public Policy
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The American Difference
- 1. What Americans Fear
- 2. Violence and the Growth of Crime
- 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
- Conclusion
- 11. Strategies of Prevention
- Appendix 1. Explaining Distributions of Violence Versus Levels of Violence
- Appendix 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