Franklin E. Zimring is the William F. Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. Gordon Hawkins is Senior Fellow at the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.
This will almost certainly come to be regarded as a seminal
book....It lucidly demonstrates something which, ever since the
international comparative victim survey data began to become
available, most of us have known but have never really thought
through-namely, that what makes the US distinctive in terms of
crime, is not that its overall crime rate is exceptional, but that
it has an extraordinarily high level of violent crime, particularly
lethal
violence.--The British Journal of Criminology
"Professors Zimring and Hawkins' brilliant analysis of violence in
the United States offers unique insights into the dilemma. One can
only hope that policy makers pay attention to the authors'
pragmatic suggestions for innovative policies to diminish this
singularly American problem."--Joseph D. McNamara, former Police
Chief, San Jose, California, and Research Fellow, The Hoover
Institution, Stanford University
"Crime Is Not the Problem is a watershed in the analysis of what to
do about crime and violence. At last, social science data from this
country and abroad is drawn into policy recommendations of
determinative importance to the prevention and punishment of
violence. At last criminology grows up."--Noval Morris, Professor
Emeritus of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago
"This book demonstrates that America's truly phenomenal level of
life-threatening violence is not closely related to its crime
levels, its numbers of criminals, or even its volume of non-lethal
violence. The authors reveal why wars on crime usually miss their
mark, and they describe vastly more promising paths for our nation
to explore. The zenith of productive collaboration of Zimring and
Hawkins,Crime Is Not the Problem is certain to become a
landmark."--Albert W. Alschuler, Wilson-Dickinson Professor, the
University of Chicago Law School
"This book cuts through the usual rhetoric to lay bare the real
characteristics of lethal violence. It is essential reading for
anyone attempting to develop effective public strategies for
dealing with this very serious problem."--Peter Greenwood,
Director, RAND Criminal Justice Program
"This book represents exactly the kind of clarity, vigor, and
intelligence that the issues of crime and violence need and rarely
get. On topic after topic--drug wars, deterrence, prison
policy--there are important insights to be found in this
study."--Lawrence M. Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of
Law, Stanford Law School Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
"This is the most important book written about guns and violence in
the United States in years. Zimring and Hawkins up-end the
conventional wisdom and make a compelling and utterly convincing
argument that crime is not America's major problem, for our rates
of crime are no higher than other industrialized countries: Gun
violence is the problem.--Deborah Leff, President, the Joyce
Foundation
"Zimring and Hawkins persuasively argue that we live with
distinctively high levels of lethal violence, within a high-gun-use
environment, where the most lethal forms of violence are
concentrated in the least-advantaged inner-city communities. Their
analysis suggests important questions that may indeed change the
subject from crime to violence, as the authors hope."--Law &
Society
"This will almost certainly come to be regarded as a seminal
book....It lucidly demonstrates something which...most of us have
known but have never really though through--namely, that what makes
the US distinctive in terms of crime is not that its overall crime
rate is exceptional, but that it has an extraordinarily high level
of violent crime, particularly lethal violence."--The British
Journal of Criminology
"Thoroughly documented; will stir debate."--Booklist
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