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When Police Kill
Franklin E. ZimringFranklin 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.
Incapacitation
Zimring"Zimring and Hawkins have over the years, together and individually, shown a remarkable ability to offer insightful, timely, and ... In this first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins show the ...
The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban ...
Franklin E. ZimringTwice 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 into the city's falling crime rates.
Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America
Franklin E. ZimringIn Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence.
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
Franklin E. ZimringIn The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will ...
American Juvenile Justice
Franklin E. ZimringInThe Changing Borders ofJuvenile Justice, edited by JefferyFagan and FranklinE. Zimring. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dawson, O.2000. “ Judicial Waiver Robert inTheory and Practice.” InThe Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice, ...
The Search for Rational Drug Control
Franklin E. ZimringThis book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States.
Capital Punishment and the American Agenda
Franklin E. ZimringDescribes social, political, and moral conditions in the United States, discusses the history of capital punishment, and examines the possibility of its being abolished
The citizen's guide to gun control
Franklin E. ZimringExamines the relationship between firearms and interpersonal violence, analyzes patterns of gun ownership in the U.S., and looks at the future of gun control legislation
The Scale of Imprisonment
Franklin E. Zimring"The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars.
Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control
Franklin E. ZimringDrawing from criminology, law, and the social sciences, the authors evaluate the effectiveness of deterrence as a form of crime control
The Great American Crime Decline
Franklin E. ZimringCasting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop.
The Great American Crime Decline
Franklin E. ZimringCasting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop.
An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual ...
Franklin E. ZimringAn American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system’s response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States.
American Juvenile Justice
Franklin E. ZimringThe book concludes with applications of the core concerns to five specific problem areas in current juvenile justice: teen pregnancy, transfer to criminal court, minority overrepresentation, juvenile gun use, and youth homicide.
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice
PreviewJuvenile justice, Administration of--United States. 2. Juvenile delinquency-- United States. I. Zimring, Franklin E. II. Tanenhaus, David Spinoza. HV9104.C46 2014 364.360973--dc23 2013045560 New York University Press books are printed on ...
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader
Benjamin FranklinA companion volume to Benjamin Franklin: An American Life presents a definitive version of Franklin's Autobiography along with a selection of some of his most important writings, including "The Art of Conversation" and "Rules for Promoting ...
Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's ...
Rae Katherine EighmeyStirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin conveys all of Franklin's culinary adventures, demonstrating how Franklin's love of food shaped not only his life, but also the character of the young nation he helped build.
Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike
More editionsFranklin, Karl J., and Joice Franklin. 1962. The Kewa counting systems. Journal of the Polynesian Society 71(2):188-191. Franklin, Karl J., and Joice Franklin [ assisted by Yapua Kirapeasi]. 1978. A Kewa dictionary: with supplementary ...
Franklin and the Tooth Fairy
Paulette BourgeoisFranklin's friends are losing their teeth, but Franklin doesn't have any teeth to lose. Will the tooth fairy visit Franklin anyway?
A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the ...
PreviewFranklin, Karl J. and Joice Franklin 1962 Kewa I: phonological asymmetry. Anthropological Linguistics 4/7: 29–37. Franklin, Karl J. and Joice Franklin 1978 A Kewa dictionary, with supplementary grammatical and anthropological materials.
Franklin's Thanksgiving
Paulette BourgeoisIn this Franklin Classic Storybook, Franklin celebrates Thanksgiving with friends and family!
Benjamin Franklin: Biographical Overview and Bibliography
Christopher J. MurreyThis book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher.
Franklin and Harriet
Paulette BourgeoisFranklin loves his toddler sister, Harriet, and enjoys spending time with her, but when Harriet claims Sam, his favorite stuffed animal, for herself, Franklin isn't sure how to handle it.
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony
David C. WoodmanMuch of the Inuit testimony presented in Unravelling the Franklin Mystery has never before been published. The earliest Woodman quotes was recorded by Franklin searchers only nine years after the disappearance of the Franklin team.
Franklin Wants a Pet
Paulette BourgeoisFranklin the turtle wants a pet and when his parents finally agree, they are surprised at the pet that Franklin chooses.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Kazam ButurThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which Franklin himself called his Memoirs, is the unfinished record of his life written between 1771 and 1790.
To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond: ...
Benjamin Franklin CoolingStabilization and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1864–1866 Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Chapter. 9. R. Nashville's. Anvil. and. Hammer. Franklin's tragedy provided the anvil for which the hammer of Nashville administered the ...
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