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Executions, Deterrence And Homicide: A Tale Of Two Cities, Franklin E. Zimring, Jeffrey Fagan, David T. Johnson
Executions, Deterrence And Homicide: A Tale Of Two Cities, Franklin E. Zimring, Jeffrey Fagan, David T. Johnson
Franklin E. Zimring
We compare homicide rates in two quite similar cities with vastly different execution risks. Singapore had an execution rate close to 1 per million per year until an explosive twentyfold increase in 1994-95 and 96 to a level that we show was probably the highest in the world. Then over the next 11 years, Singapore executions dropped by about 95%. Hong Kong, by contrast, has no executions all during the last generation and abolished capital punishment in 1993. Homicide levels and trends are remarkably similar in these two cities over the 35 years after 1973, with neither the surge in …
Investigating The Continuity Of Sex Offending: Evidence From The Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort, Franklin E. Zimring, Wesley G. Jennings, Alex R. Piquero, Stephanie Hays
Investigating The Continuity Of Sex Offending: Evidence From The Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort, Franklin E. Zimring, Wesley 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 ten of the 221 male and female juvenile sex offenders had a sex-related offense during the first eight years of adulthood. Second, 92% 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 a …