American homicide [[electronic resource] /] / Randolph Roth

• Autore: Roth Randolph <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.1520973
• Soggetto topico: Homicide - United States - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 588-640) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: American homicide
• ISBN: 0-674-26686-2; 0-674-05454-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785012903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II