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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? Secondly, the book seeks to clarify the causes of violence by looking at the proximate causes of deadly violence - guns, violence in the media, drugs and the tradition of lethal violence are all examined. The concluding section of the book concerns the prevention of lethal violence as a priority issue. The authors discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives from change in the criminal law to social and physical environmental factors and social values and attitudes.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Crime Is Not the Problem
• Subtitle: Lethal Violence in America
• Author: Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780195131055
• ISBN: 0195131053
• ID: 04514857
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 489 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 154 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 1999

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