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The Scale of Imprisonment by Franklin E. Zimring 9780226983547
Booksplease Price: $31.99Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing... -
When Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.08"A remarkable book."-Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco ChronicleDeaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur... -
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $90.16An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While... -
American Juvenile Justice by Franklin E. Zimring 9780190914264
Booksplease Price: $47.68American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of... -
American Juvenile Justice by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195181173
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $37.49American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of... -
American Youth Violence by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195121452
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $85.42This is the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States as both a social phenomenon and a policy problem. Franklin Zimring, one of America's most esteemed scholars of law and... -
American Youth Violence by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195140637
RRP: $39.33Booksplease Price: $29.23In the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have appeared with increasing frequency in the news media. Legislators across the United States have responded to this sense of national... -
The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $31.77The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. While there is unanimous condemnation of the practice,... -
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many... -
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195152364
Booksplease Price: $67.89Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the... -
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521558822
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $31.73This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of... -
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195178203
RRP: $29.01Booksplease Price: $22.95Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the... -
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective by Franklin E. Zimring 9781479843886
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $22.27An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While... -
The Great American Crime Decline by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195378986
RRP: $38.04Booksplease Price: $29.23Many theories - from the routine to the bizarre - have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic?... -
Capital Punishment and the American Agenda by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521378635
Booksplease Price: $41.43The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment... -
The Great American Crime Decline by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195181159
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $43.83Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More... -
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521416689
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $55.15This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of... -
Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195131055
RRP: $25.14Booksplease Price: $20.91This book 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... -
Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195115833
RRP: $53.52Booksplease Price: $39.40In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical... -
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice by Franklin E. Zimring 9781479816873
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.62This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear... -
An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending: 2004 by Franklin E. Zimring
Booksplease Price: $31.99"An American Travesty" is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a... -
Memos from Midlife: 24 Parables of Adult Adjustment by Franklin E Zimring 9781610272964
RRP: $26.11Booksplease Price: $22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610272964Author Franklin E ZimringFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher... -
Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California by Franklin E. Zimring 9780195171174
RRP: $56.10Booksplease Price: $47.64"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly... -
Memos from Midlife: 24 Parables of Adult Adjustment by Franklin E Zimring 9781610272995
Booksplease Price: $32.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610272995Author Franklin E ZimringFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid... -
The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $27.57The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City... -
The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin E. Zimring 9780199844425
RRP: $58.68Booksplease Price: $46.85The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling then is the crime rate drop in New York City, which lasted twice long and... -
The Changing Legal World of Adolescence by William G Simon Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute Franklin E Zimring 9781610272193
RRP: $41.59Booksplease Price: $33.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610272193Author Franklin E ZimringFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher... -
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia by David T. Johnson 9780195337402
Booksplease Price: $67.23Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will... -
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia by David T. Johnson 9780195382457
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $44.22Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will... -
Minimizing Harm: A New Crime Policy For Modern America by Edward Rubin
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13This book represents an effort by a number of leading criminologists to articulate a pragmatic crime policy for America-a policy that combines academic insights about crime prevention with the... -
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780814736555
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $90.16Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring... -
Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty by Stephen P. Garvey 9780822330431
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Can the death penalty be administered in a just way-without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with... -
Drug Control in a Free Society by James B. Bakalar 9780521357722
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $45.76Virtually all known human groups have devised and regularly used techniques for altering consciousness, among which alcohol and drugs are prominent. James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon offer a... -
Prisons in Context by Roy D. King 9780198258650
Booksplease Price: $37.91Prisons occupy a central position in the criminal justice system of all the developed nations. State controlled, and now increasingly privately run though state regulated, prisons are actually and... -
Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts by Aaron Kupchik
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.282007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to... -
Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications Jon Yorke 9781138260047
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.65This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the... -
Gun Violence: The Real Costs by Philip J. Cook 9780195137934
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $60.41The objective of this book is to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programmes to support. Drawing upon the most detailed... -
Deviance and Liberty: Social Problems and Public Policy Lee Rainwater 9781412815031
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.25Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of... -
The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty: Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean by Andrew Novak
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.26Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have... -
Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago by Wesley G. Skogan 9780197675069
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $33.64A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding to violence, and its impact on crime and public opinion. Stop & frisk has drawn a...