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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Homicide as a Routine Event | |
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| We Have a Problem | |
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| Some Consequences of Homicide | |
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| Sociology and Homicide | |
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| Modernity and Homicide | |
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| Notes | |
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| How to Understand Homicide | |
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| Cross-National and Historical Dimensions of Homicide | |
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| Levels of Analysis and Homicide | |
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| Social Psychological Explanations of Homicide | |
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| Structural Explanations of Homicide | |
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| Explaining the Homicide Rate | |
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| The Dilemma of Change | |
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| Notes | |
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| Homicide in Cross-National and Historical Perspective | |
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| A Short History of Homicide in Europe | |
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| Cross-National Homicide Rates Today | |
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| Homicide in the United states from Colonial Times to 1900 | |
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| Homicide in the United States from 1900 to the Present | |
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| Two Variants of Homicide in the United States | |
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| Homicide and Region | |
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| Homicide and Race | |
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| Modernity, Social Class, and Homicide | |
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| Notes | |
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| The American Dream and Homicide: A Critique | |
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| The Thesis and Its Empirical Basis | |
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| An Institutional-Anomie Explanation of Serious Crime | |
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| Some Critical Comments | |
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| Anomie, Modernity, and Homicide | |
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| Building on the Messner/Rosenfeld Strategy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Structure and Homicide | |
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| The Greater Availability of Guns | |
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| Guns versus Other Weapons | |
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| A Brief History of Guns and Homicide in America | |
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| How Many Guns in America? | |
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| The Coincidence Hypothesis | |
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| Gun Availability and the Rate of Homicide | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Expansion of Illegal Drug Markets | |
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| Greater Racial and Ethnic Discrimination | |
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| Greater Exposure to Violence | |
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| The Mass Media | |
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| The Family | |
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| The Neighborhood | |
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| The Government | |
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| Greater Economic Inequality | |
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| Understanding Homicide | |
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| Notes | |
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| Is Change Possible? | |
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| Sociology and Social Change | |
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| Two Illustrations | |
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| Gun Availability | |
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| Illegal Drug Markets | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |