MURDER IN AMERICA: A HISTORY (HISTORY CRIME & CRIMINAL JUS)

MURDER IN AMERICA: A HISTORY (HISTORY CRIME & CRIMINAL JUS)
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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 kinds of human life. Roger Lane simply asks the same questions of the past that we ask of the present: What causes murder rates to go up or down? How efficiently or fairly has the justice system worked in dealing with homicide? What are or have been the roles of economic difference and family structure, of the courts and the media, of the Wild West and the urban Industrial Revolution, of Indian warfare and African-American slavery? But if the questions are familiar, Lane shows us that the answers cannot be fitted neatly into boxes we now label either "liberal" or "conservative." They will surprise most readers.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Ohio State University Press
Manufacturer Ohio State University Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780814207321
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Ohio State University Press
Manufacturer	Ohio State University Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780814207321
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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