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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 *

Table of Contents

Foreword, 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
Acknowledgments

The Ecology of Homicide

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9780812252484, 978-0812252484
      ISBN10: 0812252489

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      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 *

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, 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
      Acknowledgments

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