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Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America /

This text has three main aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Crimes like burglary and theft are a part of modern urban life worldwide; shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Sec...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Zimring, Franklin E.
Autres auteurs: Hawkins, Gordon, 1919-2004
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Collection:Studies in crime and public policy.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The American difference
  • Correlates and causes
  • Prevention
  • Appendix 1. Explaining distributions of violence versus levels of violence
  • Appendix 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.