03537nam 2200757uu 450 991081513600332120240410114350.00-19-771881-71-280-53058-80-19-802709-510.1093/oso/9780195110654.001.0001(CKB)1000000000718375(EBL)271266(OCoLC)476006767(SSID)ssj0000358494(PQKBManifestationID)12152436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358494(PQKBWorkID)10376918(PQKB)10994243(MiAaPQ)EBC271266(OCoLC)1406783010(StDuBDS)9780197718810(OCoLC)41461383(FINmELB)ELB164920(EXLCZ)99100000000071837519980309e20231997 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrime is not the problem lethal violence in America /Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins1st ed.New York ;Hong Kong Oxford University Press1999New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (287 p.)Studies in crime and public policyOxford scholarship onlineBibliography: p253-259. - Includes index.Previously issued in print: 1997.0-19-511065-X Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index.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 PreventionAppendix 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; WThis work aims to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. The authors seek to clarify the causes of this by looking at the proximate causes and they discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives.Studies in crime and public policy.Oxford scholarship online.Violent crimesUnited StatesViolenceUnited StatesViolent crimesUnited StatesPreventionViolent crimesViolenceViolent crimesPrevention.364.1364.150973Zimring Franklin E.472956Hawkins Gordon1919-DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910815136003321Crime is not the problem4152269UNINA