Franklin E. Zimring William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He has served on the National Academy of Science Panels on Violence, Deterrence, and Juvenile Justice and as director of research of the Task Force on Violence of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He has written on issues of youth crime and sentencing policy, penal confinement and the restraint of crime, and gun- and drug-control policy. Recent books include An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sex Offending (2004), American Juvenile Justice (2005), The Great American Crime Decline (2006), and The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control (2012).