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Autore: Roth Randolph <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American homicide / / Randolph Roth Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-26686-2
0-674-05454-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810871703321
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