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200 10$aCrime Is Not the Problem$b[electronic resource] $eLethal Violence in America
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1999
215   $a1 online resource (287 p.)
225 0 $aStudies in crime and public policy Crime is not the problem
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-511065-X 
327   $aContents; 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
327   $aAppendix 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
330   $aThis text has three aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Secondly, the book seeks to clarify the causes of violence by looking at the proximate causes of violence. The last section concerns the prevention of violence.
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