American homicide
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10402525 |
Table of Contents:
- "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?