Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Postwar American crime as entertainment
  • Crime and punishment
  • The historiography of criminal justice and violence in Britain and the United States
  • Searching for the origins of American and European violence differences
  • The puzzle of murder statistics: a search for cause and effect
  • The violence conundrum
  • Homicide over the centuries
  • The American state from the bottom up: of homicides and courts
  • Racial factors in the New York City homicides, 1800-1874
  • New York City offender ages: how variable over time?
  • The dynamics of police behavior: a data reanalysis
  • Crossing the (blue) line: the problem with commissions
  • Policing in the United States, 1930-1972
  • History of urban police
  • The power of "excuse me"
  • Nineteenth-century institutions: dealing with the urban "underclass"
  • A disorderly people? Urban order in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America
  • American cities and the creation of order.