Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

Table of contents

• Studies in Crime and Public Policy ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction xi
• I - The American Difference 1
• 1 - What Americans Fear 3
• 2 - Violence and the Growth of Crime 21
• 3 - Transnational Patterns 34
• 4 - American Lethal Violence a Profile 51
• 5 - New Perspectives on African-American Violence 73
• II - Correlates and Causes 89
• 6 - on Causes and Prevention 91
• 7 - Firearms and Lethal Violence 106
• 8 - on Mass Media Effects 124
• 9 - Only in America? Illicit Drugs and the Death Rate from Violence 138
• III - Prevention 157
• 10 - Lethal Violence and the Criminal Law 159
• Conclusion 183
• 11 - Strategies of Prevention 185
• Appendix 1 - Explaining Distributions of Violence Versus Levels of Violence 217
• Appendix 2 - Assault in New York City and London 219
• Appendix 3 - Patterns of Three Violent Crimes in the United States 222
• Appendix 4 - Race and Lethal Violence: a Five-City Comparison 233
• Appendix 5 - Studies of Mass Communications and Homicide 237
• Appendix 6 - Drugs and Homicide in the District of Columbia: a Research Note 248
• References 253
• Index 261

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