LEADER 03423nam 2200721uu 450 001 9910815136003321 005 20240410114350.0 010 $a0-19-771881-7 010 $a1-280-53058-8 010 $a0-19-802709-5 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195110654.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000718375 035 $a(EBL)271266 035 $a(OCoLC)476006767 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358494 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12152436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358494 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10376918 035 $a(PQKB)10994243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271266 035 $a(OCoLC)1406783010 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197718810 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000718375 100 $a19980309e20231997 |y | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrime is not the problem $elethal violence in America /$fFranklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in crime and public policy 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aBibliography: p253-259. - Includes index. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 1997. 311 $a0-19-511065-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index. 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 8 $aThis work aims to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. The authors seek to clarify the causes of this by looking at the proximate causes and they discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives. 410 0$aStudies in crime and public policy. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aViolent crimes$zUnited States 606 $aViolence$zUnited States 606 $aViolent crimes$zUnited States$xPrevention 615 0$aViolent crimes 615 0$aViolence 615 0$aViolent crimes$xPrevention. 676 $a364.1 676 $a364.150973 700 $aZimring$b Franklin E.$0472956 702 $aHawkins$b Gordon$f1919- 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUk 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815136003321 996 $aCrime is not the problem$94152269 997 $aUNINA