San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2010 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/23/BAV11GUFRV.DTL

“The expression in legal analysis is ‘overbroad,'” said UC Berkeley law Professor Frank Zimring. “The problem is it sweeps innocent people up with not-so-innocent people. The problem of combining prerecorded music and a time period because you are worried about teens taking drugs is that it would also apply when there are no teenagers, or apply when there are no drugs.”

Associated Press, November 29, 2010 by Don Thompson
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-11-29/news/24952377_1_prisoner-release-order-state-prison-inmate-population

Most of the evidence favors the inmates, but conservative justices will be reluctant to intervene in state decisions, said Frank Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley law professor who has studied California prisons for nearly 30 years.

San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2010 by Kevin Fagan and Will Kane
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/24/MNI81GGK9D.DTL&type=printable

Frank Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor who studies behavior under stress, said complaints about the enhanced security measures aren’t likely to go away soon. “What bothers people about the body scan machines is that they are not just looking at your metal keys, they are looking at your twoosie,” Zimring said. “So all of a sudden we’re being observed in another way that makes people feel very vulnerable.” It’s worse with pat-downs, he said, because that creates an uncomfortable power situation…. Zimring said passengers might be more tolerant of body-scan machines if they were redesigned to show a less invasive image of the body.

The Crime Report, November 21, 2010 by Bernice Yeung
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/11/21/going-after-the-cyberbully/

When it comes to more serious criminal charges, like murder or manslaughter charges that have been called for in some bullycide cases, “you either had to be negligent or intended the harm before you can be criminally liable for it,” Zimring says. “If you’re saying that hurt feelings and deception were intended [through the bullying], well, hurt feelings and deception are two dishes often served during adolescence, and sometimes the scope of cyberspace makes things worse, but I’m not sure that’s going on a lot [in terms of the law].”

The Wall Street Journal, Vital Signs, July 22, 2010 by Cari Tuna
http://bit.ly/cI3jHG

Violent crime across the Bay Area is declining even though unemployment remains high, mirroring a national trend that has confounded criminologists. The region’s four most-populous cities—San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont—each reported fewer violent crimes such as murders and aggravated assault in 2009 than in 2008, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That’s counterintuitive because people expect felonies such as armed robberies to increase as more workers lose their jobs, says University of California, Berkeley, law professor Franklin Zimring.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 2010 by Will Kane
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/30/MNM91E6R5R.DTL

“These celebrations become provocations. It is a way of saying to the opponents, ‘I dare you,'” said Frank Zimring, a professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley who studies gang violence. “It rubs the community’s nose in the vulnerability and the violence.”

The Washington Post, June 13, 2010 by Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/11/AR2010061103259.html

But in a groundbreaking and often-replicated look at the details of criminal attacks in Chicago in the 1960s, University of California at Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring found that the circumstances of gun and knife assaults are quite similar: They’re typically unplanned and with no clear intention to kill. Offenders use whatever weapon is at hand, and having a gun available makes it more likely that the victim will die.

-The Salt Lake Tribune, June 11, 2010 by Christopher Smart
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49749347-73/death-penalty-gardner-execution.html.csp?page=1

“The law is not very good at specifying who should live and who should die,” argues Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at University of California at Berkeley.

-Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2010 by Maria L. La Ganga
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fort-bragg-killing-20100612,0,2242136,full.story

Franklin Zimring, a law professor at UC Berkeley, said that deciding on an appropriate sentence will be “a nasty balancing act” for Brown. “It’s not like there’s a long list of these,” Zimring said. “These are head-on collisions between the severity of the criminal harm and the enormity of the long-term mitigating circumstances.”