| Description |
xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Homicide as a routine event -- We have a problem -- Some consequences of homicide -- Sociology and homicide -- Modernity and homicide -- 2. How to understand homicide -- Cross-national and historical dimensions of homicide -- Levels of analysis and homicide -- Explaining the homicide rate -- The dilemma of change -- 3. Homicide in cross-national and historical perspective -- A short history of homicide in Europe -- Cross-national homicide rates today -- Homicide in the United States from colonial times to 1900 -- Homicide in the United States from 1900 to the present -- Two variants of homicide in the United States -- Modernity, social class, and homicide -- 4. The American dream and homicide : a critique -- The thesis and its empirical basis -- An institutional-anomie explanation of serious crime -- Some critical comments -- Anomie, modernity, and homicide -- Building on the Messner/Rosenfeld strategy -- 5. Social structure and homicide -- The greater availability of guns -- The expansion of illegal drug markets -- Greater racial and ethnic discrimination -- Greater exposure to violence -- Greater economic inequality -- Understanding homicide -- 6. Is change possible? -- Sociology and social change -- Two illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 191-214 |
| Subject |
Homicide -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2002154518 |
| ISBN |
0847694720 cloth alkaline paper |
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0847694739 paperback alkaline paper |
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