Murder In York City - Eric H. Monkkonen

Murder In York City Dramatically Expands What We Know About Urban Homicide, And Challenges Some Of The Things We Think We Know. Eric Monkkonens Unprecedented Investigation Covers Two Centuries Of Murder In Americas Biggest City, Combining Newly Assembled Statistical Evidence With Many Other Documentary Sources To Tease Out The Story Behind The Figures. As We Generally Believe, The Last Part Of The Twentieth Century Was Unusually Violent, But There Have Been Other High-violence Eras As Well: The Late 1920s And The Mid-nineteenth Century, The Latter Because The Absence Of High-quality Weapons And Ammunition Makes That Eras Stabbings And Beatings Seem Almost More Vicious.