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  • When Police Kill

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Great American Crime Decline

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The City That Became Safe

    New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest crime decline on record. In The City That Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks out the New York difference through a comprehensive investigation ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • American Juvenile Justice

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of adolescence, presenting a justification for the category of the juvenile or a period of partial responsibility before full adulthood ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. While there is unanimous condemnation of the practice, there is no consensus on the causes nor any persuasive analysis of what is likely to happen in the coming decades. In The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration, Franklin E. Zimring seeks a ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • When Police Kill

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    “A remarkable book.”—Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco ChronicleDeaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur annually? What circumstances provoke police to shoot to kill? Who dies? The lack of answers to these basic questions points to a crisis in American government that urgently requires the attention of policy ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Changing Legal World of Adolescence

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    This work attempts to explain changes in the legal conception of adolescence as a stage of life and as a transition to adulthood. The intended audience includes lawyers and others—such as parents, professionals, and kids—puzzled by trends labeled "children's liberation" and "the revolution in juvenile justice." Much cited and long recognized as an authority, it is considered a classic of law & ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memos from Midlife: 24 Parables of Adult Adjustment

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    "... It's the most entertaining book I've read this year."— Steve Chapman, Columnist and Editorial Writer, The Chicago TribuneThere are no pretentious pronouncements about public policy or dry conclusions from social science in these pages ... because it is a report from what Frank Zimring calls "my second career, and everybody else's second career, the hard work of becoming an adult in the modern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime Is Not the Problem

    Lethal Violence in America

    by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Year after year, in poll after poll, crime tops the list of American anxieties. Indeed, crime is seen by many people as the number one problem in the United States, a threat to the quality of life unparalleled in any other developed country. Now two legal scholars, Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, have conducted intensive research on the question and have reached a startling conclusion- ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Punishment and Democracy

    Three Strikes and You're Out in California

    by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    "Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. California's version of the "three strikes" ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Next Frontier

    National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

    by David T Johnson, Franklin E Zimring ...
    Series series
    Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world ... Read more

    $29.69 USD