LEADER 02729nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910460223803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-05454-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674054547 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040448 035 $a(OCoLC)648759722 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10402525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11281438 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10356182 035 $a(PQKB)11173090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300861 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300861 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10402525 035 $a(DE-B1597)583598 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674054547 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040448 100 $a20090427d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican homicide$b[electronic resource] /$fRandolph Roth 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (672 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-03520-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 588-640) and index. 327 $a"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? 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aHomicide$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHomicide$xHistory. 676 $a364.1520973 700 $aRoth$b Randolph$f1951-$01033812 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460223803321 996 $aAmerican homicide$92452563 997 $aUNINA