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Kids, Groups And Crime: Some Implications Of A Well-Known Secret, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Kids, Groups And Crime: Some Implications Of A Well-Known Secret, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Sentencing Reform In The States: Some Sobering Lessons From The 1970'S, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Sentencing Reform In The States: Some Sobering Lessons From The 1970'S, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Crime Is Not The Problem: A Reply, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins May 2015

Crime Is Not The Problem: A Reply, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Selectivity And Racial Bias In A Mandatory Death Sentence Dispensation: A South African Case Study, Franklin E. Zimring, Johannes Van Vuren, Jan H. Van Rooyen May 2015

Selectivity And Racial Bias In A Mandatory Death Sentence Dispensation: A South African Case Study, Franklin E. Zimring, Johannes Van Vuren, Jan H. Van Rooyen

Franklin E. Zimring

This contribution reports an analysis of prosecution, sentencing, and execution data for the Republic of South Africa during the late 1980s. The data are of special interest for three reasons. First, we document the operation of a judicial system that was administering a death sentence statute that was essentially a mandatory model in cases of murder. Second, the statistics show a pattern of selectivity depending on the race of a homicide victim that is as extreme as any to be found in the world literature on the death sentence. Finally, the outcome seriously challenges the constitutionality not only of the …


The Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth Or Reality, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

The Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth Or Reality, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Victim Injury And Death In Urban Robbery: A Chicago Study, Franklin E. Zimring, James Zuehl May 2015

Victim Injury And Death In Urban Robbery: A Chicago Study, Franklin E. Zimring, James Zuehl

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


The Scale Of Imprisonment In The United States: Twentieth Century Patterns And Twenty-First Century Prospects, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

The Scale Of Imprisonment In The United States: Twentieth Century Patterns And Twenty-First Century Prospects, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

The article examines imprisonment within the U.S. during the 20th century and discusses what these trends portend for imprisonment during the 21st century. The author creates a scale by which imprisonment rates and criminal statistics are evaluated. Charts and graphs are used to illustrate the growth in incarceration rates that occurred progressively throughout the 20th century. Elements such as penal law, prisons being viewed as sources of capital, and more stringent criminal justice procedures are referenced as factors that have contributed to imprisonment. Empirical methods are used to examine how prison populations will change in the 21st century.


E.F. Hutton Goes South, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

E.F. Hutton Goes South, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Crime, Justice, And The Savings And Loan Crisis, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins May 2015

Crime, Justice, And The Savings And Loan Crisis, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


The 1990s Assault On Juvenile Justice: Notes From An Ideological Battleground, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

The 1990s Assault On Juvenile Justice: Notes From An Ideological Battleground, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Investigating The Continuity Of Sex Offending: Evidence From The Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort, Franklin E. Zimring, Wasley G. Jennings, Alex R. Piquero, Stephanie Hays May 2015

Investigating The Continuity Of Sex Offending: Evidence From The Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort, Franklin E. Zimring, Wasley G. Jennings, Alex R. Piquero, Stephanie Hays

Franklin E. Zimring

This study uses data from the Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort to examine the natural history of sex offenders and their involvement in sexual offending through age 26. Several key findings emerged from our effort. First, only one in 10 of the 221 male and female juvenile sex offenders had a sex-related offense during the first eight years of adulthood. Second, 92 percent of all the cohort males with adult sex records had no prior juvenile sex offense. Third, a boy with no sex contacts but five or more total juvenile police contacts was more than twice as likely to commit …


Are State Prisons Undercrowded, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Are State Prisons Undercrowded, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Populism, Democratic Government, And The Decline Of Expert Authority: Some Reflections On Three Strikes In California, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Populism, Democratic Government, And The Decline Of Expert Authority: Some Reflections On Three Strikes In California, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Toward A Jurisprudence Of Youth Violence, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Toward A Jurisprudence Of Youth Violence, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Intimate Violence: A Study Of Intersexual Homicide In Chicago, Franklin E. Zimring, Satyanshu K. Mukherjee, Barrik Van Winkle May 2015

Intimate Violence: A Study Of Intersexual Homicide In Chicago, Franklin E. Zimring, Satyanshu K. Mukherjee, Barrik Van Winkle

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Drug Treatment As A Criminal Sanction, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Drug Treatment As A Criminal Sanction, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Capital Punishment And The Eighth Amendment: Furman And Gregg In Retrospect, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins May 2015

Capital Punishment And The Eighth Amendment: Furman And Gregg In Retrospect, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Levels Of Government, Branches Of Government, And The Reform Of Juvenile Justice, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Levels Of Government, Branches Of Government, And The Reform Of Juvenile Justice, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Toward A Jurisprudence Of Family Violence, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Toward A Jurisprudence Of Family Violence, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Whatever Happened To Implied Consent--A Sounding, Edward H. Hunvald Jr., Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Whatever Happened To Implied Consent--A Sounding, Edward H. Hunvald Jr., Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Facts, Fallacies, And California's Three Strikes, Franklin E. Zimring, Sam Kamin May 2015

Facts, Fallacies, And California's Three Strikes, Franklin E. Zimring, Sam Kamin

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Capital Punishment And Capital Murder: Market Share And The Deterrent Effects Of The Death Penalty, Jeffrey Fagan, Franklin E. Zimring, Amanda Geller May 2015

Capital Punishment And Capital Murder: Market Share And The Deterrent Effects Of The Death Penalty, Jeffrey Fagan, Franklin E. Zimring, Amanda Geller

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Ideology And Euphoria In Crime Control, Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins May 2015

Ideology And Euphoria In Crime Control, Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Games With Guns And Statistics, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Games With Guns And Statistics, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


American Youth Violence: Issues And Trends, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

American Youth Violence: Issues And Trends, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Penal Policy And Penal Legislation In Recent American Experience, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Penal Policy And Penal Legislation In Recent American Experience, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

offers a look on the origins and careers of proposals for penal legislation in a time of radical change in the U.S. Descriptions of where penal policy is made in the U.S. governmental system; Information on issues of quality control in shaping, passing, implementing and reviewing penal legislation in recent U.S. experience; Role of penal legislation in changing penal practices in the past generation.


Plenary Address - Symbol And Substance In The Massachusetts Commission Report, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Plenary Address - Symbol And Substance In The Massachusetts Commission Report, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Firearms, Violence, And The Potential Impact Of Firearms Control, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Firearms, Violence, And The Potential Impact Of Firearms Control, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

Discusses the association of gun use with death rate from violent crime in the United States. Evaluation of the relevance of firearms control strategies in the reduction of death rate from violence; Potential of gun control as a life-saving tool; Benefit of the reduced use of guns in attacks.


Cite-Checker's Guide To Sexual Dangerousness, A, Franklin E. Zimring, Chrysanthi S. Leon May 2015

Cite-Checker's Guide To Sexual Dangerousness, A, Franklin E. Zimring, Chrysanthi S. Leon

Franklin E. Zimring

No abstract provided.


Kids, Guns, And Homicide: Policy Notes On An Age-Specific Epidemic, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Kids, Guns, And Homicide: Policy Notes On An Age-Specific Epidemic, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

Part of a special section on youth violence and gun possession. The writer examines three dimensions of the juvenile firearms use epidemic of the period since 1985. He explores the factual foundation for concerns regarding increasing youth gun use, comparing recent trends with previous patterns and discussing some of the ways that present conditions are without precedent for students of firearms violence and of youth crime. In addition, he considers some of the data that are necessary for making intelligent choices when designing countermeasures to minors' misuse of guns and offers best guesses, given that most of the required data …