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Author | : Roger Lane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674779785 |
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Lane offers a historical explanation for rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during a paradoxical era. Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a historical culture traceable from its formative years. The author charts Philadelphia's story but also makes suggestions about national and international patterns.
Author | : Roger Lane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674939462 |
Download Violent Death in the City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Roger Lane uses the statistics on violent death in Philadelphia from 1839 to 1901 to study the behavior of the living. His extensive research into murder, suicide, and accident rates in Philadelphia provides an excellent factual foundation for his theories. A computerized study of every homicide indictment during the sixty-two years covered is the source of the most detailed information. Analysis of suicide and accident statistics reveals differences in behavior patterns between the sexes, the races, young and old, professional and laborer, native and immigrant, and how these patterns changed overtime. Using both these group differences and the changing overall incidence of the three forms of death, Lane synthesizes a comprehensive theory of the influences of industrial urbanization on social behavior. He believes that the demands of the rising industrial system, as transmitted through factory, school, and bureaucracy, combined to socialize city dwellers in new ways, to raise the rate of suicide, and to lower rates of simple accident and murder. Finally, Lane suggests a relation between these developments and the violent disorder in the postindustrial city, which has lost the older mechanisms of socialization without finding any effective new ones. Original and probing, Lane's combination of statistics and theory makes this a significant new work in social, urban, and medical history.
Author | : Barry Latzer |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-03-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807174831 |
Download The Roots of Violent Crime in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer’s comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence—including murder, assault, and rape—in the United States from the 1880s through the 1930s. Combining the theoretical perspectives and methodological rigor of criminology with a synthesis of historical scholarship as well as original research and analysis, Latzer challenges conventional thinking about violent crime of this era. While scholars have traditionally cast American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as dreadful places, Latzer suggests that despite overcrowding and poverty, U.S. cities enjoyed low rates of violent crime, especially when compared to rural areas. The rural South and the thinly populated West both suffered much higher levels of brutal crime than the metropolises of the East and Midwest. Latzer deemphasizes racism and bigotry as causes of violence during this period, noting that while many social groups confronted significant levels of discrimination and abuse, only some engaged in high levels of violent crime. Cultural predispositions and subcultures of violence, he posits, led some groups to participate more frequently in violent activity than others. He also argues that the prohibition on alcohol in the 1920s did not drive up rates of violent crime. Though the bootlegger wars contributed considerably to the murder rate in some of America’s largest municipalities, Prohibition also eliminated saloons, which served as hubs of vice, corruption, and lawlessness. The Roots of Violent Crime in America stands as a sweeping reevaluation of the causes of crimes of violence in the United States between the Gilded Age and World War II, compelling readers to rethink enduring assumptions on this contentious topic.
Author | : Steven Elliot Tripp |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1999-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081478237X |
Download Yankee Town, Southern City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order? Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.
Author | : Stephen Tuck |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2010-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674036260 |
Download We Ain’t What We Ought To Be Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicles the struggles for African American freedoms and equality from the end of the Civil War to the current day, focusing on the achievements of grassroots activists and national leaders alike.
Author | : David Greenberg |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 778 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1439905649 |
Download Crime And Capitalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Classic and contemporary viewpoints on crime.
Author | : Eric H. Monkkonen |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814209028 |
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Crime in the U.S. and the institutions for its control are deeply embedded in and shaped by history. The historical origins have often become invisible, and their recovery difficult, but any understanding of the contemporary situation requires historical context. For over twenty-five years Eric H. Monkkonen has worked on some of the puzzles and problems in recovering the history of crime and police. Much of his work has appeared in articles, often in specialized journals or not in English, which this book collects for the first time. In addition to Monkkonen's major published articles, this volume includes several new ones. The topics embrace violence, public disorder, policing, popular culture, and contrasts between the U.S. and Europe. Some articles illuminate special methodological and source issues that challenge historians of criminal justice. As well as dealing with serious crime, this book includes several articles on specifically urban problems and solutions associated with disorder, crime, and poverty. In contrast to the more technical articles, several chapters, which originally appeared as op-ed pieces, show how historical understanding can help address current policy issues in crime and crime control. All too often, current policy debates occur without proper historical background. As a result, old ideas that have been tried and rejected are re-introduced, or new and sometimes simple ideas are ignored.
Author | : Kali N. Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0190860014 |
Download Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The narrative of the discovery of a hacked up body outside of Philadelphia leads to a police investigation and trial of a woman and man, which sheds light on post-Reconstruction America, the history of African Americans, illicit sex, and domestic violence.
Author | : Brian Forst |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315486288 |
Download The Socio-economics of Crime and Justice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book on crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility. Forst has assembled a collection of authors who are writing in four parts: (1) the philosophical foundations and the moral dimension of crime and punishment; (2) the sense of community and the way it influences the problem of crime; (3) on offenders and offences; and (4) on the response of the criminal justice system.
Author | : Jack Salzman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 1990-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521365598 |
Download American Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.