American Youth Violence

by Franklin E. Zimring

Book Overview

In 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 emergency by changing many of the laws designed to cope with juvenile offenders. But are we really in the midst of a surge in youth violence? More to the point, what causes youth violence and what should we do about it? Franklin Zimring offers the definitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514063X
• ISBN13: 9780195140637
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"