American Youth Violence

By Franklin E. Zimring

Book Overview

This 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 crime, scrutinizes criminal statistics and demographic trends in order to authoritatively address public worries. The result t is a thorough debunking of Congressional predictions of "a coming storm of juvenile violence" and the half-baked policy proposals that accompany such warnings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121457
• ISBN13: 9780195121452
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 5.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"