Author(s): Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I: The American Difference......Page 16
1. What Americans Fear......Page 18
2. Violence and the Growth of Crime: Some Lessons from Recent History......Page 36
3. Transnational Patterns......Page 49
4. American Lethal Violence: A Profile......Page 66
5. New Perspectives on African-American Violence......Page 88
II: Correlates and Causes......Page 104
6. On Causes and Prevention......Page 106
7. Firearms and Lethal Violence......Page 121
8. On Mass Media Effects......Page 139
9. Only in America? Illicit Drugs and the Death Rate from Violence......Page 153
III: Prevention......Page 172
10. Lethal Violence and the Criminal Law......Page 174
11. Strategies of Prevention......Page 200
Appendix 1. Explaining Distributions of Violence versus Levels of Violence......Page 232
Appendix 2. Assault in New York City and London......Page 234
Appendix 3. Patterns of Three Violent Crimes in the United States......Page 237
Appendix 4. Race and Lethal Violence: A Five-City Comparison......Page 248
Appendix 5. Studies of Mass Communications and Homicide......Page 252
Appendix 6. Drugs and Homicide in the District of Columbia: A Research Note......Page 263
References......Page 268
A......Page 276
C......Page 277
E......Page 279
G......Page 280
H......Page 281
L......Page 282
P......Page 283
S......Page 285
V......Page 286
W......Page 287
