The Ecology of Homicide : : Race, Place, and Space in Postwar Philadelphia / / Eric C. Schneider.
Like so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, concen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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