Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

ISBN-13: 9780195131055 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str.

Franklin E. Zimring; Gordon Hawkins; Gordon Hawkins

Opis

In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revol utionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to d istinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compare d to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent cr ime, American crime rates are comparable--even lower, in some cases. O nly when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace ot her Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. Lon don and New York City have nearly the same number of robberies and bur glaries each year, but robbers and burglars kill 54 victims in New Yor k for every victim death in London.

Recenzje

This is an extremely useful book that should definitively explode a number of myths about the nature of the crime problem in the USA