Carl Franklin is an American filmmaker. Franklin is a graduate of University of California,Berkeley,and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory,where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986.
Erwin Chemerinsky is an American legal scholar known for his studies of constitutional law and federal civil procedure. Since 2017,Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Previously,he also served as the inaugural dean of the University of California,Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017.
Gary T. Marx is a scholar in the field of sociology. He was born on a farm in central California,raised in Hollywood,and grew up in Berkeley.
Gun violence is a term of political,economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States. In 2022,up to 100 daily fatalities and hundreds of daily injuries were attributable to American gun violence. In 2018,the most recent year for which data are available,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics reported 38,390 deaths by firearm,of which 24,432 were suicides. The national rate of firearm deaths rose from 10.3 people for every 100,000 in 1999 to 11.9 people per 100,000 in 2018,equating to over 109 daily deaths. In 2010,there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides,and 11,078 firearm-related homicides in the U.S. In 2010,358 murders were reported involving a rifle while 6,009 were reported involving a handgun;another 1,939 were reported with an unspecified type of firearm. In 2011,a total of 478,400 fatal and nonfatal violent crimes were committed with a firearm.
Police departments in the University of California system are charged with providing law enforcement to each of the system's campuses.
Crime in Chicago has been tracked by the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Records since the beginning of the 20th century. The city's overall crime rate,especially the violent crime rate,is higher than the US average. Gangs in Chicago have a role in the city's crime rate. The number of homicides in Chicago hit a 25-year high in 2021.
Crime in Los Angeles has varied throughout time,reaching peaks between the 1970s and 1990s. Since the early 2020s,crime has increased in Los Angeles.
Race in the United States criminal justice system refers to the unique experiences and disparities in the United States in regard to the policing and prosecuting of various races. There have been different outcomes for different racial groups in convicting and sentencing felons in the United States criminal justice system. Although prior arrests and criminal history is also a factor. Experts and analysts have debated the relative importance of different factors that have led to these disparities.
Lonnie David Franklin Jr.,better known by the nickname Grim Sleeper,was an American serial killer who was responsible for at least ten murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles,California from 1984 to 2007. He was also convicted for rape and sexual violence. Franklin earned his nickname when he appeared to have taken a 14-year break from his crimes,from 1988 to 2002.
Maurice Zimring,known as Maurice Zimm,was an American radio,television and film writer,whose most famous creation was the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The son of Jewish immigrants who settled in Iowa shortly after the turn of the century,Zimring moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s,and wrote for such mystery and drama radio series as Hollywood Star Playhouse and Murder By Experts under the pen name of Maurice Zimm.
Crime in Oakland,California,began to rise during the late 1960s,and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had risen to twice that of San Francisco or New York City. In 1983,the National Journal referred to Oakland as the "1983 crime capital" of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crime continued to escalate during the 1980s and 1990s,and during the first decade of the 21st century Oakland has consistently been listed as one of the most dangerous large cities in the United States.
Marvin Eugene Wolfgang was an American sociologist and criminologist.
Dell Thayer Upton is an architectural historian. He is emeritus professor at the department of art history at University of California,Los Angeles,and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of California,Berkeley. He had taught previously at the University of Virginia.
Proposition 47,also known by its ballot title Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor Penalties. Initiative Statute,was a referendum passed by voters in the state of California on November 4,2014. The measure was also referred to by its supporters as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. It recategorized some nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors,rather than felonies,as they had previously been categorized.
On November 4,2015,18-year-old student Faisal Mohammad stabbed and injured four people with a hunting knife on the campus of the University of California,Merced,in Merced,California. He was then shot dead by university police.
The National Firearms Agreement (NFA),also sometimes called the National Agreement on Firearms,the National Firearms Agreement and Buyback Program,or the Nationwide Agreement on Firearms,was an agreement concerning firearm control made by Australasian Police Ministers' Council (APMC) in 1996,in response to the Port Arthur massacre that killed 35 people. Four days after the killings,Australian Prime Minister John Howard told Parliament “We need to achieve a total prohibition on the ownership,possession,sale and importation of all automatic and semi-automatic weapons. That will be the essence of the proposal that will be put by the Commonwealth government at the meeting on Friday...". The laws to give effect to the Agreement were passed by Australian State governments only 12 days after the Port Arthur massacre.
Gordon Joseph Hawkins was an Australian criminologist. He served as a professor at the University of Sydney's Institute of Criminology from 1961 to 1984,and was the Institute's director from 1981 to 1985. After retiring in 1984,he served as a senior fellow at the University of California,Berkeley's Earl Warren Legal Institute until 2001. From 1970 to 1999,he published twelve books,nine of which were co-authored with Berkeley professor Franklin Zimring. His first book,The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control,was co-authored by Norval Morris and published by the University of Chicago Press in 1970.
The issue of crimes committed by illegal immigrants to the United States is a topic that is often asserted and debated in politics and the media when discussing Immigration policy in the United States.
