Yes We Can: Working Together toward a History of Homicide that is Empirically, Mathematically, and Theoretically Sound

I would like to thank the Editorial Board of Crime, History, and Societies for giving Pieter Spierenburg and me an opportunity to discuss my book, American Homicide. As I anticipated, Pieter’s essay is an aggressive defense of the “civilization” thesis of Norbert Elias, a thesis which Pieter has ad...

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Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Prif Awdur: Roth, Randolph
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2013
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:I would like to thank the Editorial Board of Crime, History, and Societies for giving Pieter Spierenburg and me an opportunity to discuss my book, American Homicide. As I anticipated, Pieter’s essay is an aggressive defense of the “civilization” thesis of Norbert Elias, a thesis which Pieter has advanced in creative ways. At the end of my essay, I will suggest ways in which my findings on the history of homicide are compatible and incompatible with Pieter and Elias’s thesis. Before I do, how...