The Ecology of Homicide
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5248-4 (ISBN)
Examining the transcripts of nearly two hundred murder trials, The Ecology of Homicide presents the voices of victims and perpetrators of crime, as well as the enforcers of the law—using, to an unprecedented degree, the words of the people who were actually involved. In Schneider's hands, their perspectives produce an intimate record of what was happening on the streets of Philadelphia in the decades from 1940 until 1980, describing how race factored into everyday life, how corrosive crime was to the larger community, how the law intersected with every action of everyone involved, and, most critically, how individuals saw themselves and others. Schneider traces the ways in which low-income African American neighborhoods became ever more dangerous for those who lived there as the combined effects of concentrated poverty, economic disinvestment, and misguided policy accumulated to sustain and deepen what he calls an "ecology of violence," bound in place over time.
Covering topics including gender, urban redevelopment, community involvement, children, and gangs, as well as the impact of violence perpetrated by and against police, The Ecology of Homicide is a powerful link between urban history and the contemporary city.
Eric C. Schneider (1951-2017) was Assistant Dean and Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Adjunct Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Smack: Heroin and the American City, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Foreword, Howard Gillette Jr.
Preface
Chapter 1. Dancing with Knives: The Ecological Structure of African American Homicide in Postwar Philadelphia
Chapter 2. Killing Women and Women Who Kill: Intimate Homicides
Chapter 3. Race and Murder in the Remaking of West Philadelphia
Chapter 4. Dirty Work: Police and Community Relations and the Limits of Liberalism
Chapter 5. The Children's War
Chapter 6. Street Wars: Shooting Police and Police Shootings
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.03.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8122-5248-9 / 0812252489 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8122-5248-4 / 9780812252484 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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