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Autore |
Zimring Franklin E. |
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Titolo |
Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America / / Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-771881-7 |
1-280-53058-8 |
0-19-802709-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in crime and public policy |
Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Violent crimes - United States |
Violence - United States |
Violent crimes - United States - Prevention |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliography: p253-259. - Includes index. |
Previously issued in print: 1997. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work aims to show that what separates the USA from other |
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