Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America / / Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins [[electronic resource]]
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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 [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1 |
| 364.150973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Violent crimes - United States |
| Violence - United States | |
| Violent crimes - United States - Prevention | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | HawkinsGordon <1919-> |
| Note generali: | Bibliography: p253-259. - Includes index. |
| Previously issued in print: 1997. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-259) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crime is not the problem |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771881-7 |
| 1-280-53058-8 | |
| 0-19-802709-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815136003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Studies in crime and public policy.
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