عنوان

American homicide /

(Number (ISBN

0674035208

(Number (ISBN

0674054547

(Number (ISBN

9780674035201

(Number (ISBN

9780674054547

Number

b749404

Title Proper

American homicide /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Randolph Roth.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xv, 655 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

"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?

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Text of Note

Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. He argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults--friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century. Then the homicide rate skyrocketed from the late 1840s through the mid-1870s, while rates in most other Western nations held steady or fell. That surge--and all subsequent increases in the homicide rate--correlated closely with four distinct phenomena: political instability; a loss of government legitimacy; a loss of fellow-feeling among members of society caused by racial, religious, or political antagonism; and a loss of faith in the social hierarchy. Those four factors, Roth argues, best explain why homicide rates have gone up and down over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.--From publisher description.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

CRKN/DCI for HSS

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctvjf916r

Medium

FormOnline

Terms of Availability

CostDepend

Title

American homicide.

International Standard Book Number

9780674035201

Homicide-- United States-- History.

Homicide.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Criminology.

TRUE CRIME-- General.

United States.

7

HIS-- 036000

LAW-- 026000

SOC-- 004000

TRU-- 000000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Roth, Randolph,1951-

Date of Transaction

20201204092033.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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