Search results for ‘Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins’

Filter & Refine

      Cover image for Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

      Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins

      This text has three aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Secondly, the book seeks to…

      $94.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Capital Punishment and the American Agenda
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

      Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins

      This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s…

      $41.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Scale of Imprisonment
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Scale of Imprisonment

      Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon J. Hawkins

      Two 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 scholarship on…

      $116.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Pornography in a Free Society
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Pornography in a Free Society

      Gordon Hawkins (University of California, Berkeley),Franklin E. Zimring (University of California, Berkeley)

      Why has pornography become so divisive an issue in Western nations in recent decades? This volume looks at the subject from a broad perspective and concludes that its widespread availability…

      $47.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Search for Rational Drug Control
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Search for Rational Drug Control

      Franklin E. Zimring (University of California, Berkeley),Gordon Hawkins (University of California, Berkeley)

      This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. Zimring and Hawkins present different ways of understanding American drug policy and provide a…

      $79.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Search for Rational Drug Control
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Search for Rational Drug Control

      Franklin E. Zimring (University of California, Berkeley),Gordon Hawkins (University of California, Berkeley)

      This book presents an examination of the drug control policy process in the United States.

      $45.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Punishment and Democracy
      Hardback
      Add to list Added to list

      Punishment and Democracy

      Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins,Sam Kamin

      This title is a treatment of the politics and the impact of the get tough criminal sentencing legislation in the US. It includes a major empirical study of the celebrated…

      $327.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Cover image for Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re Out in California

      Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins,Sam Kamin

      Offers an analysis of the politics and impact of ‘get tough’ criminal sentencing legislation. This work examines the origins of the law in California, compares it to other laws, and…

      $123.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

      Franklin E. Zimring (Professor of Law and Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute),Gordon Hawkins (Senior Fellow, Earl Warren Legal Institute, Senior Fellow, Earl Warren Legal Institute, both at the University of California, Berkeley)

      An assessment of incapacitation in which the authors expose the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature and empirical research on incapacitation’s effects, and explore…

      $109.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order