San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, by Chip Johnson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/19/BA9G12DCT1.DTL&hw=Chip+Johnson&sn=007&sc=188
Zimring said national crime statistics on burglary and robbery don’t ebb and flow based on the economy’s ups and downs. “Robbery makes no economic sense, but there is an emotional and recreational reward of dominating people,” Zimring said. It’s about power.”
San Jose Mercury News, August 1, 2008, by Sean Webby
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10065181?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
A leading expert … agreed the report is difficult to interpret as anything but a limited snapshot of last year. “This is the police department making its own best case and it is self-serving and one-sided, as one would expect,” said Franklin Zimring. “This is thin soup.” But he also said he was astounded that there had not been a single use of deadly force used last year…. “That ain’t chopped liver.”
US News and World Report, June 11, by Emma Schwartz
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/11/crime-rates-shown-to-be-falling_print.htm
Unlike in the late 1980s and ’90s, when the crack epidemic sent crime rates up across the board, there “isn’t a consistent set of national trends” these days, says Frank Zimring.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/MNHS115PSG.DTL&type=printable
“What you have now is real divergence.… Some cities are doing very well, others are doing very badly. That’s what you’d expect, but it’s not what we lived with for 15 or 20 years.”
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, by Carolyn Jones and Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/22/BA27VP3K1.DTL
“From the standpoint of keeping the streets safe, she was a candidate for Social Security when she showed up at the beginning of her term,” Zimring said. “This apparatus is all extraordinarily arbitrary.”
Mercury News, March 20, by Sean Webby
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8642914?source=most_viewed
“San Jose has an extremely low homicide rate—even this year—by Bay area standards,” Zimring said. “There are no indications in this small collection of cases that there has been any real trend.”
Los Angeles Daily News, March 3, by Rachel Uranga
http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_8432325?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com
“There are two functions of the reward: one is as an expression of the high status of social importance of the crime; the other is to reassure and console,” Zimring said.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 22, by Tracy Johnson
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/324703_clemency23.html
“Clemency has become a rare event because there are no political advantages associated with it in the overwhelming majority of cases. Ordinarily, governors have a lot more to lose than gain by an extension of mercy.”
New York Times, July 22, by Maggie Jones
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22juvenile-t.html?ex=1185940800&en=716e7a673d80c67b&ei=5070
“The number of career sex offenders who would be able to hide official records behind the protective policies of juvenile justice would fast approach zero….The number of low-risk juveniles kept from permanent stigma would be quite large.”
New York Times, July 22, by Maggie Jones
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22juvenile-t.html?ex=1185940800&en=716e7a673d80c67b&ei=5070
“The number of career sex offenders who would be able to hide official records behind the protective policies of juvenile justice would fast approach zero….The number of low-risk juveniles kept from permanent stigma would be quite large.”