Homicide : a sociological explanation / Leonard Beeghley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeghley, Leonard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homicide--United States.

Homicide.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Contents:

I. Homicide as a routine event

We have a problem

Some consequences of homicide

Sociology and homicide

Modernity and homicide

II. How to understand homicide

Cross-national and historical dimensions of homicide

Levels of analysis and homicide

Explaining the homicide rate

The dilemma of change

III. Homicide in cross-national and historical perspective

A short history of homicide in Europe

Cross-national homicide rates today

Homicide in the United States from colonial times to 1900

Homicide in the United States from 1900 to the present

Two variants of homicide in the United States

Modernity, social class, and homicide

IV. The American dream and homicide : a critique

The thesis and its empirical basis

An institutional-anomie explanation of serious crime

Some critical comments

Anomie, modernity, and homicide

Building on the Messner/Rosenfeld strategy

V. Social structure and homicide

Greater availability of guns

Expansion of illegal drug markets

Greater racial and ethnic discrimination

Greater exposure to violence

Greater economic inequality

Understanding homicide

VI. Is change possible?

Sociology and social change

Two illustrations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.

ISBN:

0847694720

0847694739

OCLC:

51216183