Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America /
This text 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; shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Sec...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| سلاسل: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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جدول المحتويات:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The American difference
- Correlates and causes
- Prevention
- Appendix 1. Explaining distributions of violence versus levels of violence
- Appendix 2. Assault in New York City and London
- Appendix 3. Patterns of three violent crimes in the United States
- Appendix 4. Race and lethal violence: a five-city comparison
- Appendix 5. Studies of mass communications and homicide
- Appendix 6. Drugs and homicide in the District of Columbia: a research note
- References
- Index.