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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Franklin E. Zimring is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research contributions primarily fall within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, health, clinical psychology, nature and landscape conservation, and international relations.

Their work covers multiple interconnected topics:

  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions

Among the recent academic papers authored by Zimring are the following:

  • "Police Killings as a Problem of Governance," 2020, published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • "Firearms and violence in American life-50 years later," 2020, published in Criminology & Public Policy

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

They have collaborated with other researchers, notably with David S. Tanenhaus.

Zimring has been recognized with fellowships from prestigious institutions including:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990

Best Publications

  • Deterrence; the legal threat in crime control

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • The great American crime decline

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins;Sam Kamin

  • The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • American Youth Violence

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • The scale of imprisonment

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Crime is not the problem : lethal violence in America

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • Is Gun Control Likely to Reduce Violent Killings

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • The Changing Legal World of Adolescence

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • An American travesty: Legal responses to adolescent sexual offending.

    Franklin E. Zimring;Francis A. Allen

  • Firearms and Federal Law: The Gun Control Act of 1968

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Kids, Groups and Crime: Some Implications of a Well-Known Secret

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • American Juvenile Justice

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • The Search for Rational Drug Control

    Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

  • The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court

    Jeffrey A. Fagan;Franklin E. Zimring

  • Declining Homicide in New York City: A Tale of Two Trends

    Jeffrey A. Fagan;Franklin E. Zimring;Jaeyeun Kim

  • Sexual delinquency in racine: does early sex offending predict later sex offending in youth and young adulthood?*

    Franklin E. Zimring;Alex R. Piquero;Wesley G. Jennings

  • The medium is the message: firearm caliber as a determinant of death from assault

    Franklin E. Zimring

  • Public Opinion and the Governance of Punishment in Democratic Political Systems

    Franklin E. Zimring;David T. Johnson

  • Investigating the Continuity of Sex Offending: Evidence from the Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort

    Franklin E. Zimring;Franklin E. Zimring;Wesley G. Jennings;Wesley G. Jennings;Alex R. Piquero;Stephanie Hays

  • Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

    Mary Thornberry;Franklin E. Zimring;Gordon Hawkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Fagan
Jeffrey Fagan Columbia University
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
Alex R. Piquero
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami
Anthony N. Doob
Anthony N. Doob University of Toronto
Michael Tonry
Michael Tonry University of Minnesota
Joan Petersilia
Joan Petersilia Stanford University
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Edward Donnerstein
Edward Donnerstein University of Arizona
Daniel Linz
Daniel Linz University of California, Santa Barbara
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

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