Murder In New York City by Eric H. Monkkonen

Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other documentary sources to tease out the story behind the figures. As we generally believe, the last part of the twentieth century was unusually violent, but there have been other high-violence eras as well: the late 1920s and the mid-nineteenth century, the latter because the absence of high-quality weapons and ammunition makes that era's stabbings and beatings seem almost more vicious. Monkkonen's long view allows us to look back to a time when guns were rarer, when poverty was more widespread, and when racial discrimination was more intense, and to ask what difference these things made. This 2001 University of California Press Hardback is in very good condition. DJ. Very small tear to the DJ on back.

ISBN: 9780520221888 SKU: 1582432 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1582432
Location: True Crime