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1	American Youth Violence more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist In the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have appeared with increasing frequency in the news media. Legislators across the United States have responded to this sense of national emergency by changing many of the laws designed to cope with juvenile offenders. But are we really in the midst of a surge in youth violence? More to the ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist 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 Contradictions in American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.79! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Punishment & Democracy: Three Strikes & You're Out in California more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Sam Kamin, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $36.14! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new study, and explore in detail the links between what ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $7.08! \| first editions \| SVS
5	American Juvenile Justice more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $8.78! new only from $30.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Century of Juvenile Justice more books like this by Margaret K Rosenheim (Editor), Franklin E Zimring (Editor), David Spinoza Tanenhaus (Editor) add to wishlist Since its inception in Illinois in 1899, the juvenile court has become a remarkable legal and social institution all over the developed world, one that plays a singular role in modern government. At its founding, the juvenile court was intended to reverse longstanding legal traditions, and place the child's interests first in areas of law ranging ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $29.95!
7	The Search for Rational Drug Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist In this comprehensive examination of drug control policy in the United States, the authors address a number of pressing questions. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? The authors discuss priority problems for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Pornography in a Free Society more books like this by Gordon Hawkins, Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'. It addresses an issue about which citizens of Western nations are sharply divided. Gordon Hawkins and Franklin Zimring attempt to look at the problem of pornography in a wider perspective than that of partisan political debate. To that end, they compare two ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist This work 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, whereas shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Secondly, the book seeks to clarify the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Capital Punishment and the American Agenda more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Tom Wicker, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except the United States. No political science of capital punishment in the United States has been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.99! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia more books like this by David T Johnson, Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $13.01! new only from $29.44!
12 view cover	Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist see all copies from $4.21! new only from $7.00! \| first editions
13	The Citizen's Guide to Gun Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Great American Crime Decline more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $14.91! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Scale of Imprisonment more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $16.75!
16 view cover	An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Frances Allen (Foreword by) add to wishlist "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. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. ... see all copies from $14.82! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy more books like this by Peter W Greenwood, Franklin E Zimring (Foreword by) add to wishlist One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it. The most commonly used strategies and programs for combating juvenile delinquency problems primarily rely on intuition and fads. Fortunately, as a result of the promising new research documented in ... see all copies from $13.37! new only from $13.37! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court more books like this by Jeffrey Fagan (Editor), Franklin E Zimring (Editor) add to wishlist Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime - youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more recently, epidemic gun violence and drug-related crime - have spurred laws and policies aimed at narrowing ... see all copies from $27.50! new only from $34.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Social control of the drinking driver more books like this by Michael D Laurence, Franklin E Zimring, John R Snortum (Photographer) add to wishlist Drunken driving is the most serious crime likely to be committed by an adult. Each year in the United States it is responsible for approximately 20,000 fatalities, more than 500,000 arrests, and millions of violations. It involves a wider variety of social classes and economic strata than any other major violation of the law. Only recently, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00!
20	Firearms & violence in American life; a staff report submitted to the National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence more books like this by George D. Newton, Franklin E. Zimring, United States. Task Force on Firearms, United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! first editions
21	The Changing Legal World of Adolescence more books like this by Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon J Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
23	Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control more books like this by Frinklin E Zimring, Franklin E Zimring, James Vorenberg (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! first editions
24	Divorce Reform at the Crossroads more books like this by Stephen D Sugarman, Franklin E Zimring (Foreword by), Herma Hill Kay add to wishlist California passed the first pure no-fault divorce law in the United States and some form of no-fault has been adopted in every state - but the divorce revolution it launched remains unfinished. Now specialists in the field have written a book that appraises the situation today, explains how we got where we are, and explores legislative options for ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $84.00! \| first editions
25	Medical Innovation and Bad Outcomes: Legal, Social, and Ethical Responses more books like this by Kenneth F. Schaffner (Editor), American Society of Law and Medicine, Franklin E. Zimring (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.49!

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