Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The American difference
  • Correlates and causes
  • Prevention
  • Appendix 1. Explaining distributions of violence versus levels of violence
  • Appendix 2. Assault in New York City and London
  • Appendix 3. Patterns of three violent crimes in the United States
  • Appendix 4. Race and lethal violence: a five-city comparison
  • Appendix 5. Studies of mass communications and homicide
  • Appendix 6. Drugs and homicide in the District of Columbia: a research note
  • References
  • Index.