A study of criminal homicide in America from precolonial times to the present, drawing on accounts of witnesses, official documents, physical remains, and priva
In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that t
This revised and updated edition of Murder in America presents a pragmatic examination of both common and unusual acts of homicide in the United States.
On the night of December 1,1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept at home beside his wife, Margaret. On April 11, 1901, after fiv
This timely reference examines the psychological and social phenomena of mass and serial murder, bringing scholarly depth to a frequently sensationalized subjec