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According to Wikipedia, David Michael Kennedy is an American historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the former Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history.

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Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire (2001) (555)
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999) (468)
Youth violence in Boston: Gun markets, serious youth offenders, and a use-reduction strategy (1996) (374)
Beyond 911: A New Era For Policing (1990) (230)
Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the prospect of sanction (2008) (217)
Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) (200)
Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire (2004) (199)
Pulling Levers: Chronic Offenders, High-Crime Settings, and a Theory of Prevention (2011) (167)
Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs (1999) (161)
Birth control in America : the career of Margaret Sanger (1971) (75)
The Illegal Supply of Firearms (2002) (73)
Homicide in Minneapolis (1998) (66)
Pulling Levers: Getting Deterrence Right (1998) (63)
Freedom from Fear (1999) (55)
The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920–1970. By William Henry Chafe. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. xiii + 351 pp. Notes, selective bibliography, and index. $7.95.) (1973) (45)
The (Un)Known Universe: Mapping Gangs and Gang Violence in Boston (2017) (43)
New Approaches to the Strategic Prevention of Gang and Group-Involved Violence (2002) (43)
The illicit acquisition of firearms by youth and juveniles (2001) (38)
Advocate Old wine in new bottles: policing and the lessons of pulling levers (2006) (38)
Problem solving and youth violence: an evaluation of the Boston Gun Project (2000) (38)
Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations (1997) (37)
Locating Focused Deterrence Approaches within a Situational Crime Prevention Framework (2008) (34)
Underwriting the Risky Investment in Community Policing: What Social Science Should Be Doing to Evaluate Community Policing (1995) (31)
Gangs and public policy (2009) (28)
Private-party gun sales, regulation, and public safety. (2010) (26)
Youth Homicide in Boston (1999) (25)
The Strategic Management of Police Resources (1993) (23)
Overview: The Progressive Era (1975) (22)
Juvenile gun violence and gun markets in Boston (1997) (21)
The Psychology of Computer Criminals (2015) (19)
Drugs, Race and Common Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention (2008) (18)
What the New Deal Did (2009) (18)
Birth Control In America (1970) (16)
Personal security in public transport travel in New Zealand: problems, issues and solutions (2008) (15)
The Library of Congress World War II Companion (2007) (14)
Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness (2008) (14)
The American pageant : a history of the American people (2013) (11)
Progressivism : the critical issues (1971) (10)
Whither streetwork? The place of outreach workers in community violence prevention (2011) (10)
The American People in the Great Depression (2003) (10)
Beyond deterrence : Strategies of focus and fairness (2017) (10)
The brief American pageant : a history of the republic (1989) (10)
The American People in World War II (2003) (9)
9. Taking Criminology Seriously: Narratives, Norms, Networks, and Common Ground (2010) (6)
Advocate: Policing and the Lessons of Focused Deterrence (2019) (5)
Response to “What works with gangs: A breakthrough” (2019) (5)
The modern American military (2013) (5)
The Art of the Tale: Story-telling and History Teaching (1998) (5)
Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger@@@Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future (1971) (4)
A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime (2021) (4)
Boston Gun Project: Impact Evaluation Findings (2012) (3)
Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement. (1978) (3)
What Would Wilson Do (2010) (3)
Crossing the moral threshold. (2005) (3)
Domestic Violence in High Point, North Carolina (2020) (2)
Does deterrence work (2012) (2)
Revisiting Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday@@@Only Yesterday. (1986) (2)
On Writing Women's History@@@Sexual Politics@@@Essays on Sex Equality@@@The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History@@@The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930@@@Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger@@@Daughters of the Promised Land (1971) (2)
The American Spirit (1993) (1)
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Advisory Board 2010 (2011) (1)
A Vexed and Troubled People (1995) (1)
Applications II: A thought experiment: The framework of a deterrence approach to domestic violence (2012) (1)
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Grossman, 1976. xviii + 479 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.50.) (1977) (1)
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University (1989) (1)
On “Changing How Police View Arrest” (2017) (1)
Advanced Placement - United States History (2002) (1)
War and Modernization: The National Promise Achieved or Corrupted?@@@Over Here: The First World War and American Society. (1981) (1)
Problem-Oriented Public Safety (2020) (1)
The American people in the depression (1973) (0)
2. Imagining America: The Promise and Peril of Boundlessness (2018) (0)
Listening to Lysistrata (2012) (0)
FACE TO FACE: Watering California (1985) (0)
Index to International Security: Volume 22 (Summer 1997Spring 1998) (1998) (0)
The Australian physical environment (2009) (0)
How, and do, criminals think? The classical deterrence framework and the meaning of rationality (2012) (0)
The American Presidency: A Brief History (2020) (0)
The Political Economy of World War I@@@The War Industries Board: Business-Government Relations During World War I. (1974) (0)
Book Review (2005) (0)
Advocate (2019) (0)
Cutting downtime with computer technology (1992) (0)
David J. Pivar. Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868–1900. (Contributions in American History, number 23.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1973. Pp. x, 308. $10.95 (1974) (0)
Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Logging (1984) (0)
Affairs both foreign and domestic (1994) (0)
Seizing the Tide (2022) (0)
How FDR Lost the Struggle to Enact an Antilynching Bill (1999) (0)
The Australian physical environment – By Howard Bridgman, Deirdre Dragovich and John Dodson (2009) (0)
Warping Time and Space: What It Really Takes to Do Action Research in Crime Control (2015) (0)
Reﬂections II: Amending the deterrence framework (2012) (0)
Introduction (2011) (0)
Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four Centuries (review) (2006) (0)
Social thought in America and Europe : readings in comparative intellectual history (1970) (0)
The Heart of the Matter Valerie M. Hudson (2009) (0)
Advanced Placement US History Course Description (2005) (0)
Initial reﬂections: From within the traditional framework (2012) (0)
Hey, big spenders (1995) (0)
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (review) (2005) (0)
CHAPTER 2. The Origins and Uses of American Hyperpower (2012) (0)
What Pildes Missed: The Framers, the True Impact of the Voting Rights Act, and the Far Right (2011) (0)
Face to Face -- Watering California (PDF) (1985) (0)
Whatever it is, I'm against it (1997) (0)
Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four Centuries. By Cal Jillson (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2004) 347 pp. $34.95 (2007) (0)
Immigration: What the U.S. can learn from Canada (1997) (0)
TANFASTIC SUN HUTS The Ultimate Suntan TAN NOW Don ' t Burn Over Spring Break ! The only area Sun Huts that simulate the outside sun (2014) (0)
The Campaign for Contraception. (Book Reviews: Birth Control in America. The Career of Margaret Sanger) (1971) (0)
Toward a Profession of Crime Prevention and Control (2009) (0)
Applications I: Eliminating overt drug markets: The “High Point” strategy (2012) (0)
Margaret Sanger's New Look (1970) (0)
Hope among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America. By David P. Peeler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xvi + 340 pp. $35.00.) (1988) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)

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The American Pageant