Roth, Randolph, 1951-

American homicide [electronic resource] / Randolph Roth. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - xv, 655 p. : ill., map.

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

"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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