| #996758 in Books | Ohio State University Press | 1997-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.34 | File Name: 0814207332 | 399 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating history, and a persuasive argument.|By A Customer|The recent precipitous drop in the U.S. murder rate has been variously--and fairly plausibly-- attributed to prosperity, the "war on drugs", fudged reporting statistics, and anything else that may reinforce someone's political or social preconceptions. In a surprisingly engaging and entertaining style, Profess|From Kirkus s|A survey of murder in America from colonial times until the present. Lane (Social Science/Haverford Coll.) begins his study in medieval England, hardly a peaceful age: The murder rate is estimated to have been about 20 per 100,000 people, which i
This book is the first serious study of the history of criminal homicide in America, reaching from precolonial times to the age of the O. J. Simpson trial. Noted historian Roger Lane provides this much-needed overview of the history of murder and our culture's responses to it. Lane demonstrates that the study of murder can provide important clues about the way society actually works, its fears and tensions, its concept of justice, and the value it places on different ki...
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You easily download any file type for your device.Murder in America: A History | Roger Lane.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
