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Incapacitation

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  ...
When Police Kill

When Police Kill

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.
The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban ...

The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban ...

Franklin E. Zimring

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 into the city's falling crime rates.
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

Franklin E. Zimring

In 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

American Juvenile Justice

Franklin E. Zimring

InThe 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, ...
Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

Franklin E. Zimring

In 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.
American Youth Violence

American Youth Violence

Franklin E. Zimring

On juvenile delinquency in America
The Search for Rational Drug Control

The Search for Rational Drug Control

Franklin E. Zimring

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States.
Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

Franklin E. Zimring

Describes 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

The citizen's guide to gun control

Franklin E. Zimring

Examines 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
Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control

Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control

Franklin E. Zimring

Drawing from criminology, law, and the social sciences, the authors evaluate the effectiveness of deterrence as a form of crime control
The Scale of Imprisonment

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.
The Great American Crime Decline

The Great American Crime Decline

Franklin E. Zimring

Casting 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

The Great American Crime Decline

Franklin E. Zimring

Casting 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 ...

An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual ...

Franklin E. Zimring

An 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

American Juvenile Justice

Franklin E. Zimring

The 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.
Juvenile Justice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Juvenile Justice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Oxford University Press

2002; Tanenhaus 2004; and Zimring 2005 are all comprehensive texts useful for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Specialized topics useful for supplemental ... ▻Tanenhaus, David Spinoza. 2004.Juvenile justice in the making.
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice

Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice

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Juvenile 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 ...
To Live and Die in Dixie: Native Northerners Who Fought for ...

To Live and Die in Dixie: Native Northerners Who Fought for ...

David Zimring

W. S. Dawson Co., 1994), 6–7; Evans, “Daniel Pratt,” 8–9; Hampton, A Divided Heart, xi; Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, A Northern Woman in the Plantation. 352. South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox 1856–1876, ed. Wilma Notes to ...

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