Homicide: A Sociological Explanation - Softcover

Beeghley, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847694739 ISBN 13: 9780847694730

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Echoing Durkheim's Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and crossnational dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America's murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets, greater racial discrimination, more exposure to violence, and sharper economic inequalities. He deftly blends the evidence related to each of these factors into a wellreasoned sociological analysis of the nature of American society.

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Beeghley is professor of sociology at the University of Florida.

Review:

The book is well written, well referenced, and adequately indexed. Recommended. (CHOICE)

Beeghley's book provides an impressive sociological understanding of murder. (Okeechobee News)

Homocide: A Sociological Explanation is an ideal text for sociology and criminology graduate students because it offers a comprehensive review of U.S. homicide through a critical lens. The material is challenging, and Beeghley's research is thorough. (Laurie J. Samuel, Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Justice Review)

With skillful use of analogies and an engaging writing style, Leonard Beeghley has written a book on the sociology of homicide that is highly accessible to the general public. The arguments are well reasoned and located skillfully in the scholarly literature. A first rate book. (Steven Messner, The University at Albany)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0847694739
• ISBN 13: 9780847694730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240