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<p>In <i>American Homicide</i>, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults—friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century, even in the slave South; and by the early nineteenth century, rates in
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- Author
- Roth, Randolph, 1951-
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674266865
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Law, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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