Homicide Rates and Mortality Trends: Perspectives from Public-Health Scholarship

More than three decades ago, Eric H. Monkkonen celebrated the creative fragmentation of criminal-justice history. He compared the field, which was then in its infancy, to U.S. urban history and noted that the latter had quickly become inward-looking as a consequence of a rush to synthesize exciting...

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1. Verfasser: Adler, Jeffrey S.
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2018
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:More than three decades ago, Eric H. Monkkonen celebrated the creative fragmentation of criminal-justice history. He compared the field, which was then in its infancy, to U.S. urban history and noted that the latter had quickly become inward-looking as a consequence of a rush to synthesize exciting new findings. The great methodological and theoretical promise of 1960s and 1970s urban mobility studies dominated the field, making it increasingly narrow as historian after historian reproduced ...