American homicide / Randolph Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Randolph, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homicide--United States--History.

Homicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth examines the four factors that explain why homicide rates have gone up and down in the United States and in other Western nations over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.

Contents:

"Cuttinge one anothers throates" : homicide in early modern Europe and America

"All hanging together" : the decline of homicide in the Colonial Period

Family and intimate homicide in the first two centuries

"A sense of their rights" : homicide in the age of revolution

The emergence of regional differences : homicide in the postrevolutionary period

The rise in family and intimate homicide in the nineteenth century

"All is confusion, excitement and distrust" : America becomes a homicidal nation

The modern pattern is set : homicide from the end of Reconstruction to World War I

The problem endures : homicide from World War I to the present

Conclusion : can America's homicide problem be solved?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 588-640) and index.

ISBN:

9780674266865

0674266862

9780674054547

0674054547

OCLC:

648759722