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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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Published in:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 173 - 196
Main Authors: ROTH, RANDOLPH, MALTZ, MICHAEL D., ECKBERG, DOUGLAS L.
Format: Essay
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Summer2011
Subjects:
Homicide rates
Murder
Western United States history
Crime statistics
Statistical methods in epidemiology
History
West (U.S.)
United States
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