ISBN-13: 9780803932289 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 280 str.
Surveys research on the long-term dynamics of murder and other crimes of violence. This work identifies and diagnoses the circumstances of recurring epidemics of violent crime that have swept the social landscape of the United States in the last 150 years, including immigration, the social dislocation of war, and concentrations of urban poverty.