The New York Times, January 4, 2010 by Adam Liptak
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/us/05bar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“The A.L.I. is important on a lot of topics,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “They were absolutely singular on this topic” — capital punishment — “because they were the only intellectually respectable support for the death penalty system in the United States.”
Times-Standard, December 5, 2009 by Chris Durant
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13933755
“In large cities it’s rare, but the smaller the town, the more visible cases are,” Zimring said. “And you have to remember … it is an elected position.”
St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 2009 by Jeffrey Fagan and Franklin E. Zimring
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/myths-of-get-tough-law/1048326
We find no evidence that any of the get-tough laws such as Florida’s law produced significant crime declines among young teenagers in Florida or anywhere else…. As extra prevention, juvenile life without parole is useless.
San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2009 by Chip Johnson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/01/BA9H19V673.DTL
“The prosecution may want this out of town because the political implications are that if you get an unpopular verdict, the town may burn,” he said.
Governing, October 2009 by Alan Greenblatt
http://www.governing.com/article/what-age-responsibility
Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor, suggests that it’s easier to block youngsters from obtaining rights than it is to take away rights to which adults have grown accustomed. That’s because states aren’t really denying young people rights, Zimring says. They’re asking them to wait.
KGO-TV, September 3, 2009 by Cecilia Vega
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6998171
Zimring says keeping tabs on the highest-risk offenders should be the focus for law enforcement agencies, but as budget cuts take effect, that’s not always being done. “If you had 4,000 or 5,000 high-risk offenders you could do a much better job than if you have 50,000 or a 100,000 sex offenders and it’s one size fits all,” said Zimring.
The Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2009 by E.B. Solomont
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418671212&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The NYPD, which also added thousands of officers during the ’90s, was watching and becoming more aggressive in making arrests. “You had this kitchen sink full of police changes in the 1990s, and you have a much bigger drop in crime in New York than the general American crime drop,” said Frank Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and author of The Great American Crime Decline.
The New York Times, August 1, 2009 by Shaila Dewan
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/weekinreview/02dewan.html?_r=1
The decline, Mr. Zimring said, has shown that it isn’t necessary to accomplish major feats, like improving education or raising wages, or punitive ones, like increasing prison sentences, to bring crime down. Smart policing can have an effect. “Crime isn’t an essential part of cities as we know them,” Mr. Zimring said.
The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 2009 by Diane Jennings
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-familyexperts_19met.ART.State.Edition1.4b90e00.html
Zimring says the laws allowing juvenile registration are an accidental byproduct of adult policies. “Nobody is making policy for 12-year-olds in American legislatures,” the professor says. “What they’re doing is they’re making crime policy and then almost by accident extending those policies to 12-year-olds—with poisonous consequences.” Zimring thinks it’s inappropriate to register anyone adjudicated as a juvenile…. “We have a cure for youth crime,” he says. “It’s growing up.”
The New Yorker, June 22, 2009 by John Seabrook
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/22/090622fa_fact_seabrook
Franklin Zimring … told me that one reason that Ceasefire’s effectiveness is difficult to predict in any given city is that Kennedy’s results have not been subjected to a rigorous independent analysis. “Ceasefire is more a theory of treatment than a proven strategy,” he said, adding, “It’s odd that no one has ever said, ‘O.K., here are the youths who were not part of the Ceasefire program in Boston, let’s compare them to the youths who were.’ And no one has followed up with any long-range studies of the criminal behavior of the group that was in the program, either. We just don’t have the evidence, and until we do we can’t evaluate how effective Ceasefire really is.”