Gordon Hawkins: 3 books
Punishment and Democracy
Three Strikes and You're Out in California
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a...
Crime Is Not the Problem
Lethal Violence in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1999
In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compared to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent crime, American crime...
by Gordon Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This biography explores what drove William Smith to change his name, in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, to Amor De Cosmos. Hawkins traces how De Cosmos became one of the most feared journalists in British Columbia and then how he forced his way into British Columbia politics, becoming...