Henry Brownstein's book, The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime, and Joel Best's books, Random Violence and Damn Lies and Statistics , have various links. “The social world in which we live is designed by us in the context of our own values ​​and interests,” according to Brownstein. These values ​​and interest are placed in the social context by those in power to design policies and procedures. Social issues start with a typical event and then media attention to publicize the event. The publication of the event then attracts the attention of the government to impose policies aimed at solving the social problem. Claims are made regarding social reality to construct from one's experience or social phenomena that will attract the attention of members of society. The appeal of the question is described in books by Best and Brownstein. Violence is considered one of the social problems. The meaning of violence is usually not specifically defined. Many use examples to define violence. Joel Best describes guessing and defining social issues as a way to generate bad statistics. “Whenever example replaces definitions, there is a risk that our understanding of the problem will be distorted,” according to Best. Broad definitions or example definitions add the possibility of false positives and false negatives to statistical information. The definition of a social problem, such as violence, impacts measures of that problem. Measurement issues are discussed in Damn Lies and Statistics and The Social Reality of Violence. A common, mutually agreed definition must be established and the actions, decisions and interpretations of those measuring the problem can impact the measurements...... middle of paper ......one causes mutating statistics. Besides the generalization problem, there is no way to predict random violence. It is difficult to design policies and programs if there is no way to predict future violence. Both Best and Brownstein discuss the NCVS's statistical issues with reporting domestic versus stranger violence. The main connection I saw in the Social Reality book and the Random Violence book was the discussion of language. Best describes language as the “decisive factor that shapes what we think about, and therefore how we deal with our problems.” Brownstein discusses the language of social problem theory as making assertions from subjective experience to confront other members of society in an equally objective manner. Since everyone has a different language and culture, this creates differences in identifying, defining and categorizing social problems..