WHY IS MILWAUKEE'S HOMICIDE RATE
TWICE AS HIGH AS NEW YORK CITY'S?
Linda Linegar
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Sound Research on
Homicide and Violence
Murder in America: a history. by Roger
Lane
This is a masterful book with a unique historical perspective. Pay close
attention to Lane's conclusions on the role of desperation and lack of
attachment to the work force as key correlates of violence.
1997. Columbus. Ohio State University Press.
Two Important Articles by Ted Robert Gurr
"Historical Trends in Violent Crime: Europe and the United States."
In Violence in America: The History of Crime,
ed. Ted Robert Gurr pp 21-54.
1989. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
"Historical Trends in Violent Crime: A Critical
Review of the Evidence." In
Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, ed. Michel Tonry,
and Norval Morris pp 295-353.
1981. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder
from the Frontier to the Inner City by David
T Courtwright
What's the best historical analogy to the crack epidemic? The 1848 California
Gold Rush.
1996. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Streets.
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The Homicide
Working Group has links to the best resources on homicide.
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality
in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue, Thomas
A good case study on how violence and deindustrialization are related.
1996. Princeton, NJ: Princeton.
Other Good Information
on Homicide
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon.
The TV series was developed from this book which may be the best book
ever written describing a Homicide Unit
1991. New York: Ivy Books.
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions
of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
A provocative inquiry into the roots of violence.
1997. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson.
Evolutionary psychology tackles the relationship between gender and
homicide. Absolutely essential analysis for any serious scholar.
1988 New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
More Standard Analyses
Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective.
Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner
A dated but still the standard work looking at crime cross-nationally.
The analysis of the impact of war on homicide rates is first rate.
1984. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Poverty, Ethnicity and Violent Crime.
by James F.Short Jr.
Short examinse violence through many levels of analysis, gender is not
one of them. Still very worth reading.
1997. Boulder, CO: Wesstview Press.
Suicide and Homicide by Andrew F. Henry,
and James F. Short, Jr.
One of my favorites. Looks at the relationship between economic variables,
homicide, suicide, and race. Very dated, but still interesting.
1954 London: The Free Press of Glencoe.
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