HOMICIDE RATES IN THE OLD WEST.

This article describes the methods that social scientists use to measure and compare the risks that various populations face of being murdered. It demonstrates that the West was unusually homicidal compared to the rest of the Western world, except for the most violent areas of the South during Recon...

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Publicado en:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 173 - 196
Autores principales: ROTH, RANDOLPH, MALTZ, MICHAEL D., ECKBERG, DOUGLAS L.
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Summer2011
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