The Arizona Republic, June 10, 2009 by JJ Hensley
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/06/10/20090610ucrstats0610.html

Police say the vast majority of those crimes are the result of drug-and-human smuggling operations, which should make the overall decline in violent crime more significant to most Valley residents and visitors, said Frank Zimring…. “There is no inconsistency between that subtrend and the larger population statistics on crimes that are going down. They’re just two different scales,” he said. “Unless you get kidnapped, then you don’t worry about that trend.”

The New York Times, June 1, 2009 by Solomon Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02fbi.html

“Serious criminal behavior is so intensely concentrated in pockets of the nation that the kids who are committing crimes are usually not part of the factory layoff, they’re not affected by the credit freeze or failing mortgages,” said Frank Zimring, a criminologist at University of California, Berkeley.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 13, 2009 by Mark Roth
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09103/962453-53.stm

An incident March 21 in which a man killed four Oakland, Calif., police officers and then was shot to death himself also does not fit the usual mass killing pattern, Dr. Zimring said. The suspect in that case was facing a return to prison when he was pulled over at a traffic stop and probably shot the first officer in a state of panic, “and all the other killings followed from that first one.”

KQED News, April 2, 2009 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R904021730

“The most hopeful sign is what happened to New York in the 1990s. Almost certainly in that setting, police did make a difference, and they made a difference across the board, in all kinds of neighborhoods. The best guess is that it will have some pay off.”

New Scientist, March 16, 2009 by David Johnson and Franklin Zimring
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126995.100-capital-punishment-its-all-politics.html

“The biggest obstacle to ending executions in Asia is politics, not culture. Often, the trigger for a decline in capital punishment is a degree of democracy and an easing of authoritarianism.”

Daily Journal, February 5, 2009 by Rebecca Beyer
http://www.dailyjournal.com (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

Zimring said when the federal death penalty was reinstated it was with the goal of “using federal law to contradict state policy”—in other words, to have the punishment as an option in states where the death penalty doesn’t exist. What happened in reality, he said, was “exactly the opposite….” “What you had was tremendous redundancy,” he said. “The places that had high levels of death verdicts and executions were the places that had the concentrations in federal death penalty verdicts.”

The Arizona Republic, January 13, 2009 by JJ Hensley
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/01/13/20090113valleyhomicides0113.html

“The first thing that’s obvious is that it’s real. The second thing that’s obvious is that it isn’t breaking new ground,” Zimring said. “What this appears to be is more fluctuation than the start of a new trend.”

NPR News & Notes, January 8, 2009 by Farai Chideya
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99120917

“The big difference between the United States and other developed countries is not that we have different kinds of punishments, but that we use the severe punishments much more. The imprisonment rate in the United States is five or six times the imprisonment rate in other developed countries that we like to compare ourselves to.”