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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric C. SchneiderPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812252484ISBN 10: 0812252489 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 13 November 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword, 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 AcknowledgmentsReviewsThe Ecology of Homicide is an interdisciplinary microhistory of how racial discrimination, violence, crime, and masculinity have played a role in the high rates of murder in Philadelphia's hyper-segregated Black communities, from World War II to the early 1980s. By relying on research from sociologists and criminologists, [Schneider] refutes theories suggesting that African Americans and their culture are inherently violent. Instead, he explains historically how high murder rates in marginalized Black communities are a result of generations of social inequality that create an environment where life is uncertain and murder is performed as self-protection from physical violence and dishonor in the public and private spheres of society . . . [A] relevant book that should not only be consumed by scholars but also by city officials, policymakers, and police. -The Metropole Focused on homicide and policing in postwar Philadelphia's economically deprived Black neighborhoods, this volume by the late Schneider masterfully unveils an urban ecology spawning human conflict and violent death. It is an intriguing case study.-- Choice Author InformationEric C. Schneider (1951-2017) was Assistant Dean and Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Adjunct Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Smack: Heroin and the American City, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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