Eric C. Schneider, "The Ecology of Homicide: Race, Place, and Space in Postwar Philadelphia"
English | ISBN: 0812252489 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 819 KB
English | ISBN: 0812252489 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 819 KB
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, concentrated in the low-income African American populations living within particular neighborhoods. In The Ecology of Homicide, Schneider tracks the history of murder in Philadelphia during a critical period from World War II until the early 1980s, focusing on the years leading up to and immediately following the 1966
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