Henry Brownstein's book, The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime, and Joel Best's books, Random Violence and Damned Lies and Statistics, have various connections . “The social world we live in is designed by us in the context of our values ​​and interests,” says Brownstein. These values ​​and interests are inserted into the social context by those who hold power to design policies and procedures. Social problems begin with a characterizing event and then media attention to publicize the event. The publication of the event then attracts the attention of the government to impose policies to solve the social problem. One makes claims about social reality to construct from one's experience or social phenomena that will attract the attention of members of society. The attraction of the problem is described in the books of Best and Brownstein. Violence is considered one of the social issues. The meaning of violence is usually not specifically defined. Many use examples to define violence. Joel Best describes hypothesizing and defining social problems as ways to cause a negative statistic. “Whenever examples replace definitions, there is a risk that our understanding of the problem will be distorted,” according to Best. Broad definitions or example definitions allow you to add the possibility of false positives and false negatives to statistical information. The definition of a social problem, such as violence, impacts the measurements of that problem. Measurement issues are discussed in Damn Lies and Statistics and The Social Reality of Violence. A common, mutually agreed upon definition must be established, and the actions, decisions, and interpretations of those measuring the problem can impact the measurement causing changing statistics. In addition to the problem of generalization, there is no way to predict random violence. Policies and programs are difficult to design if there is no way to predict the future of violence. Best and Brownstein both discuss the NCVS statistical issues regarding reporting of family violence versus stranger violence. The main connection, which I saw in the book Social Reality and the book Random Violence, was the discussion of language. Best describes language as “the decisive factor that shapes what we think about, and therefore how we approach our problems.” Brownstein discusses the language of social problem theory as making statements from subjective experience to objectively compare other members of society. Since everyone has a different language and culture, differences arise in the identification, definition and categorization of social problems.