Murder in New York City. (Reviews).

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Murder in New York City. By Eric H. Monkkonen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xi plus 238 pp. $29.95).

Eric Monkkonen's study of murder in New York City over two centuries significantly expands and historicizes what we know about murder in American society. Examining census data, court records, newspaper accounts, city inspector and police reports, coroner's records, and FBI data among other documents, Monkkonen challenges the "common wisdom" we hold about how and why people murder in the United States. While uncovering the brutality of New York's ...

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