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Franklin Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring is an American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Franklin Ester Zimring
Zimring in 2015
Born (1942-12-02) December 2, 1942 (age 81)
Los Angeles, California, United States
TitleWilliam G. Simon Professor of Law
SpouseMichal Crawford
ChildrenCarl and Daniel
Awards1995 Guggenheim Fellowship[1]
Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Academic background
EducationWayne State University, University of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineCriminology, law
InstitutionsUC Berkeley School of Law

Early life and education

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Zimring was born on December 2, 1942, in Los Angeles, California,[2] to television and film writer Maurice Zimring, better known by his stage name Maurice Zimm, and his wife Molly, a lawyer who passed the California Bar in 1933.[3][4][5] After graduating from Los Angeles Public Schools, he received his B.A. with distinction from Wayne State University in 1963 and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1967.[3]

Career

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Zimring joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1983 as director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute, a position he held until 2002.[3] He was appointed the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar in 2006 and served in that capacity until 2013.[6]

Writings

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Zimring has written several books on topics such as capital punishment and drug control.[7] He has also published a number of academic papers, including one in the University of Chicago Law Review in 1968 on gun control[8] which found that both gun and knife attacks were both typically unplanned and with no intent to kill, but if a gun was available, it was more likely that the victim would die.[9] In 1999, he (along with Gordon Hawkins) wrote the book Crime Is Not the Problem, which argues that the United States does not have a problem with crime overall, but does have a problem with lethal crime, relative to other countries.[10] In 2011, he wrote the book The City that Became Safe, which is about the decline in New York City's crime rate and its causes.[11] In 2017, his book When Police Kill was published by Harvard University Press. The book explores the fact that over 1,000 Americans are killed by police each year. For example, it examines racial disparities in these killings, and concludes that these disparities are not due to higher crime rates in black neighborhoods.[12]

Views

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According to the Washington Post's Max Ehrenfreund, Zimring believes the recent decline in crime rates in New York City was larger than in other American cities largely because of the recruitment of more police officers.[13] Zimring has said that a proposed exemption to the California law banning local communities from regulating guns, but only in Oakland, could "test the waters of local control and to see whether the political process that produces city-level gun policy can get inclusive and responsible, and whether it can get specific and selective in ways that can solve the problem."[14] In a 2015 opinion piece in the New York Daily News, he criticized claims by Heather Mac Donald that the Ferguson effect was responsible for a recent increase in crime rates in the United States, calling the proposed effect "fiction" and said that the evidence at the time suggested that there was "probably not" a "nationwide crime wave" of the sort Mac Donald claimed existed.[15]

Honors and awards

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Zimring's awards include the Edwin H. Sutherland Award (2007) and August Vollmer Award (2006), both from the American Society of Criminology. In 1995, he received the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3][1]

Personal life

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In 1967, Zimring married Susan Hilty. They have two adult children: Carl and Daniel.[2][3] He later remarried to Michal Crawford, to whom he was still married as of April 2015.[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Franklin E. Zimring". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Franklin Zimring". Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. 2006. Archived from the original on 2016-02-20. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Franklin Zimring CV". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  4. ^ Staff (24 November 2005). "Maurice Zimring, 96; Screenwriter Created 'Black Lagoon' Story". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  5. ^ Hunter, D. Lyn (16 October 2002). "An empiricist tackles crime". Berkeleyan. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Franklin E. Zimring". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Franklin Zimring". UC Berkeley Experts Directory. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  8. ^ Zimring, Frank (Summer 1968). "Is Gun Control Likely to Reduce Violent Killings?". The University of Chicago Law Review. 35 (4): 721–737. doi:10.2307/1598883. JSTOR 1598883.
  9. ^ Cook, Philip J. (11 June 2010). "Five myths about gun control". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  10. ^ Beauchamp, Zach (27 August 2015). "America doesn't have more crime than other rich countries. It just has more guns". Vox. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  11. ^ Rogers, Thomas (19 November 2011). "What really cleaned up New York". Salon. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  12. ^ Keller, Bill (21 February 2017). "Two Books Argue the Case for Police Reform From Within". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Ehrenfreund, Max (3 December 2015). "We've had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here's why". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  14. ^ Romney, Lee (14 September 2013). "Oakland's aim". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  15. ^ Zimring, Franklin (7 June 2015). "What national crime wave? The 'Ferguson Effect' is fiction". New York Daily News. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  16. ^ Zimring, Franklin (2015). Memos from Midlife: 24 Parables of Adult Adjustment. Quid Pro Books. p. 106. ISBN 9781610272988.
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