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Personnel:

Investigators (in the order in which they joined the project):

• Eric Monkkonen, Department of History & Policy Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
• Randolph Roth, Department of History, Ohio State University
• Douglass L. Eckberg, Department of Sociology, Winthrop University
• Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Department of History, University of Connecticut
• Kenneth Wheeler, Department of History, Reinhardt College
• James Watkinson, Research Librarian, Library of Virginia
• Robb Haberman, Department of History, University of Connecticut
• James M. Denham, Department of History, Florida Southern College
• Glenn McNair, Department of History, Kenyon College
• Carolyn Conley, Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Roger Lane, Department of History, Haverford College
• Gilles Vandal, Department of History & Political Science, University of Sherbrooke
• Terri Snyder, Department of American Studies, California State University at Fullerton
• Clare V. McKanna, Jr., Department of History & American Indian Studies, San Diego State University
• Jack Marietta, Department of History, University of Arizona
• G. S. Rowe, Department of History, University of Northern Colorado
• Pieter Spierenburg, Department of History, Erasmus University
• Mary Beth Emmerichs, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan
• Leigh B. Bienen, School of Law, Northwestern University
• Barbara Hanawalt, Department of History, Ohio State University
• Kevin J. Mullen, Department of Police, City of San Francisco
• Jeffrey S. Adler, Departments of History & Criminology, University of Florida
• Philip J. Schwarz, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
• James Campbell, Department of American Studies, University of Nottingham
• Petula Iu, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles
• James Rice, Department of History, University at Plattsburg
• Howard Brown, Department of History, University at Binghamton
• Andrew Stickley, School of Social Sciences at Södertörns Högskola (University College of South Stockholm)
• Michael D. Maltz, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University
• Paul Gilje, Department of History, University of Oklahoma
• Peter Turchin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
• Richard McMahon, Department of History, Stanford University
• John Coombs, Department of History,Hampden-Sydney College
• Peter J. Bullock, Independent Scholar
• Cheryl Xie, American International School of Guangzhou

Mohammed Ali, Alexis Antracoli, Ross Bagby, John Callery, Brian Carroll, Adrianne Clark, Eliza Clark, Forrest Coen, Keegan Dwyer, Doug Gillette, Kelsey McCrea, Adriana Mancillas, Marie Martin, Jeffrey Meyer, Ashley Snead, Holly Wheaton, Albert Wolf

Investigators:

The late Eric Monkkonen was a member of the Departments of History and Policy Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and is past president of the Social Science History Association. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota. He was the author of many books, including The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885, and Murder in New York City, a study of homicide in that city from 1790 to the present; and he was a past president of the Social Science History Association. At the time of his death in 2005, Eric was working on a history of homicide in Los Angeles and on a comparative study of urban homicide rates in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Randy Roth is a member of the History Department at the Ohio State University and of the Editorial Board of Crime, History, and Societies. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University and is the author American Homicide, an interregional history of murder in the United States from colonial times to 1900, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ohio Academy of History; and in 2009, he received the Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. E-mail: roth.5@osu.edu

Doug Eckberg is Chair of the Sociology Department at Winthrop University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Intelligence and Race: The Origins and Dimensions of the IQ Controversy and of numerous articles on social movements, sociological methods, and homicide. He has just completed an essay on crime and criminal justice for the forthcoming edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. Doug is now working on a history of homicide in post-Reconstruction South Carolina. E-mail: eckbergd@winthrop.edu

Nina Dayton is a member of the History Department at the University of Connecticut and of the Editorial Board of the William and Mary Quarterly. She received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and is the author of Women before the Bar. She is writing a history of mental illness and of attitudes toward the mentally ill in New England, 1620-1830. Nina is also conducting research for a history of suicide in early New England. E-mail: dayton@sp.uconn.edu

Ken Wheeler is a member of the History Department at Reinhardt College. He received his Ph.D. in History from Ohio State University. Ken is writing a history of higher education in the Old Northwest in the nineteenth century and its role in the creation of Midwestern culture. E-mail: khw@mail.reinhardt.edu

Jim Watkinson is a research librarian at the Library of Virginia and has been an adjunct member of the History Department at Randolph-Macon College. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. Jim is writing a history of poverty in antebellum Virginia, titled Fit Objects of Charity: Attitudes toward and Treatment of the Poor in Rural Antebellum Virginia. E-mail: JWatkinson@lva.lib.va.us

Robb Haberman is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Connecticut. Robb is conducting research for his doctoral dissertation on the development of magazine publishing in the United States, 1800-1860. E-mail: rosob@yahoo.com

Mike Denham is a member of the History Department at Florida Southern College and the director of the Florida History Center (http://www.flsouthern.edu/flhistory). He received his Ph.D. in History from Florida State University. He is the author of “A Rogue’s Paradise”: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida and co-author with William W. Rogers of Florida Sheriffs: A History. Mike is continuing his work on the history of crime and criminal justice in Florida. E-mail: jdenham@flsouthern.edu

Glenn McNair is a member of the History Department at Kenyon College. He received his Ph.D. in History from Emory University. Glenn is currently writing a history of slave crimes and the criminal justice system in Georgia from colonial times through the Civil War. E-mail: mcnairg@kenyon.edu

Carolyn Conley is a member of the History Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her Ph.D. in History from Duke University. She is the author of The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent, Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland, and Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Carolyn’s latest book is Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteen-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (2007). E-mail: cconley@uab.edu

Roger Lane is an emeritus member of the History Department at Haverford College. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including Murder in America, a study of homicide in the United States from colonial times to the present, Violence in the City, a study of suicides, homicides, and accidents in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, and Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900, which won the Bancroft Prize of the Society of American Historians. Now retired, Roger is writing novels, but he is still keenly interested in the history of violence. E-mail: rlane@haverford.edu

Gilles Vandal is a member of the Departments of History and Political Science at the University of Sherbrooke. He received his Ph.D. in History from the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The New Orleans Riot of 1866: The Anatomy of a Tragedy and of Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884. Gilles has just completed a manuscript for a study of crime and justice in New Orleans, 1840-1885, and he has begun a study of crime and justice in rural Louisiana, 1840-1885. E-mail : gvandal@courrier.usherb.ca

Terri Snyder is a member of the Department of American Studies at the California State University at Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia and of several articles on domestic violence and sexual coercion. Terri is currently researching the history of suicide in early Virginia. E-mail: snyder@fullerton.edu

Bud McKanna is an emeritus member of the Departments of History and American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the author of a number of books and essays, including Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920, and Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California. E-mail: cmckanna@mail.sdsu.edu

Jack Marietta is a member of the Department of History at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. A noted historian of Quakerism, he co-authored with Gail S. Rowe Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. E-mail: jack-marietta@ns.arizona.edu

Gail Rowe is an emeritus member of the Department of History at the University of Northern Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. With Jack Marietta, he co-authored Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. He is currently writing mystery novels. E-mail: growes36@attbi.com

Pieter Spierenburg is a member of the Department of History at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on capital punishment, the history of homicide, and the culture of honor in Europe. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression. His latest book is: Written in Blood: Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam. E-mail: spierenburg@fhk.eur.nl

Mary Beth Emmerichs is a member of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently studying the history of homicide in nineteenth-century London. E-mail: memmeric@uwc.edu

Leigh Bienen is Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. She received her J.D. at the Rutgers School of Law. She has written on capital punishment, incest, rape, Nigerian homicide, and the relationship between the law and violent offenders. She is the author of many books and articles, including Crimes of the Century, which she co-authored with Gilbert Geis. She is currently studying the history of homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930. E-mail: lbbienen@law.northwestern.edu

Barbara Hanawalt is a member of the Department of History at Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. She has written widely on the social and cultural history of medieval England. Her books include Crime and Community in Medieval England, 1300-1348; The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England; and Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. Barbara served a term as president of the Social Science History Association. Her most recent book is The Wealth of Wives (2007), a study of London women in the late Middle Ages. E-mail: hanawalt.4@osu.edu

Kevin Mullen is a retired member of the Police Department of the City of San Francisco, where he was Deputy Chief of Police. He is has a keen interest in the history of law enforcement and of San Francisco, and is the author of Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco. His latest book is a history of homicide in San Francisco, titled Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000. E-mail: KM870@sbcglobal.net

Jeff Adler is a member of the Departments of History and Criminology at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He is the author of First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 and of numerous essays on homicide and domestic violence. E-mail: jadler@history.ufl.edu.

Phil Schwarz is an emeritus member of the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his Ph.D. in History from Cornell University. He is the author of Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865; Slave Laws in Virginia; and Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation. He is working on a history of slavery in Virginia and with Douglas Egerton on a collection of documents on Gabriel’s alleged insurrectionary plot in 1800 against slavery in Virginia. E-mail: pschwarz@saturn.vcu.edu

James Campbell received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham. His is currently writing a history of criminal justice in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. He is also working on a comparative study of race and the judicial process in nineteenth-century free and slave societies. E-mail: jmcamp1@hotmail.com

James Rice is a member of the Department of History at the University at Plattsburg. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland, where he wrote his dissertation on the history of crime and punishment in Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1837. He is currently writing a history of the Potomac Country, 700-1800. E-mail: ricejd@plattsburgh.edu.

Howard Brown is the Chair of the Department of History at the University at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. in History at Oxford University. studies the history of revolutionary France and is the author of Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, Repression, which received the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the American Historical Association. E-mail: hgbrown@binghamton.edu.

Andrew Stickley is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Södertörns Högskola (University College of South Stockholm) and a researcher in SCOHOST (Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stockholm University. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of homicide in European Russia. He is currently writing on the history of homicide in St. Petersburg, 1890-1928. E-mail: andrew.stickley@sh.se.

Michael D. Maltz is an emeritus member of the Departments of Criminal Justice and of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an adjunct member of the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an expert on criminal statistics, and he has published numerous books and articles on techniques for making valid and useful inferences from data. He is the former editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and a former visiting fellow of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice. E-mail: mdm@sociology.osu.edu.

Paul Gilje is a member of the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University. He is the author of several studies of collective violence in the United States, including Rioting in America and The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834. He is most recently the author of Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Society and Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (2004), which won the Best Book Prize of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic; and of Making of the American Republic, 1763-1815 (2006). E-mail: pgilje@ou.edu.

Peter Turchin is a member of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University. Peter is an expert in the mathematical modeling of behavior and long-term macro-dynamic historical trends. His website is at: http://cliodynamics.info/. Peter's publications include Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall (2003), War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations (2006), and Secular Cycles (2009). At present, he is developing a time series of lethal group conflicts in the United States (riots, lynchings, etc.) as a measure of political instability. The series will be featured in his forthcoming book, A Demographic-Structural Analysis of American History, 1780-2010. E-mail: Peter.Turchin@UConn.edu.

Richard McMahon is a visiting member of the Department of History at Stanford University, where he is teaching Irish history. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Law at University College Dublin, where he completed his thesis on “Homicide, the courts and popular culture in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland.” He has published a number of articles on Irish legal and criminal justice history and is the editor of Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900 (Willan Publishing, 2008). He has also served as a research on the AHRC-funded project at the University of Dundee, Scotland, on “From Peaceable Kingdom to Wild West: Violence and Crime on the Early American Frontier.” His current research interests lie in the history of violence and the legal and criminal justice history of Ireland and North America. E-mail: richardmcmahon@ireland.com.

John Coombs is a member of the Department of History at Hampden-Sydney College. He received his Ph.D. in History from William and Mary College. He is co-editor with Douglas M. Bradburn of Early Modern Virginia: New Essays on the Old Dominion, and the author of The Rise of Virginia Slavery, both forthcoming from the University Press of Virginia. His research focuses on the social, cultural, and economic history of the colonial Chesapeake. E-mail: jcoombs@hsc.edu.

Peter Bullock of Great Britain, who is retired, has taken an interest in researching Violent and Unexpected or Unexplained Deaths in England, Australia, New Zealand, and China. He is especially interested in the history of port cities. E-mail: zenocrate@163.com.

Cheryl Xie is a graduate of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou with a double degree of BA and BL.  She is interested in the law system of ancient China, and especially the first contacts between the Chinese and Western law systems.  At present she is an Assistant at the American International School of Guangzhou. E-mail: cherylying@tom.com.

Funding for the Collaborative Database:

Randy Roth and Nina Dayton would like to thank the following institutions for supporting the research that created the Historical Violence Database:

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for the Study of Dominance, Violence, and Human Aggression

Ohio State University, College of Humanities

Ohio State University, Criminal Justice Research Center

National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowships for University Teachers

National Science Foundation, Law and Society Program, Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBR-9808050)

University of Connecticut, Department of History

Publications and Theses by Principal Investigators

Adler, Jeffrey S. (1997) "'My Mother-in-Law is to Blame, But I'll Walk on Her Neck Yet': Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago." Journal of Social History 31: 253-76.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (1999) "'If We Can't Live in Peace, We Might as Well Die': Homicide-Suicide in Chicago, 1875-1910." Journal of Urban History 26: 3-21.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (1999) "'The Negro Would Be More than an Angel to Withstand Such Treatment': African-American Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1910," in Michael A. Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History. New York: New York University Press: 294-315.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (2001) "'Halting the Slaughter of the Innocents': The Civilizing Process and the Surge in Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago." Social Science History 25: 29-52.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (2002) "'I Loved Joe, But I Had to Shoot Him': Homicide by Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (2003) "'On the Border of Snakeland': Evolutionary Psychology and Plebeian Violence in Industrial Chicago, 1875-1920." Journal of Social History 36: 541-60.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (2006) First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Bienen, Leigh B. (1974) "Criminal Homicide in Western Nigeria, 1966-1972." Journal of African Law 18: 57-78.

Bienen, Leigh B. and Gilbert Geis (1998) Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Bienen, Leigh B. and Brandon Rottinghaus (2002) "Learning from the Past, Living in the Present--Patterns in Chicago Homicides, 1870-1930." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 92: 437-554.

Brown, Howard (1997) "From Organic Society to Security State: The War on Brigandage in France 1797-1802," Journal of Modern History 69: 661-95.

Brown, Howard (1999) "Domestic State Violence: Repression from the Croquants to the Commune," The Historical Journal 42: 597-622.

Brown, Howard (2000) "An Unmasked Man in a Milieu de Mémoire: the abbé Solier as Brigand-Priest," Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 26: 1-30.

Brown, Howard (2006) Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, Repression. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Campbell, James (2003) "Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia." Ph.D. dissertation: University of Nottingham.

Campbell, James (forthcoming) "'The Victim of Prejudice and Hasty Consideration': Urban Slave Society and the Slave Trial System in Richmond, Virginia, 1830-1861." Slavery and Abolition.

Conley, Carolyn A. (1986) "Rape and Justice in Victorian England." Victorian Studies 29: 519-34.

Conley, Carolyn A. (1991) The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent. New York: Oxford University Press.

Conley, Carolyn A. (1999) Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Conley, Carolyn A. (2007) Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Coombs, John and Douglas M. Bradburn, eds. (forthcoming) Early Modern Virginia: New Essays on the Old Dominion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Coombs, John (forthcoming) The Rise of Virginia Slavery. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes (1991) "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 48: 19-49.

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes (1995) Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Denham, James M. (1997) "A Rogue's Paradise": Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Denham, James M. (2001) Florida Sheriffs: A History, 1821-1945. Tallahassee: Sentry Press.

Denham, James M. and Randolph Roth (2007) "Homicide in Florida, 1821-1861: A Quantitative Analysis." Florida Historical Quarterly.

Eckberg, Douglas L. (1995) "Estimates of Early-Twentieth Century U.S. Homicide Rates: An Econometric Forecasting Approach." Demography 32: 1-16.

Eckberg, Douglas L. (2000) "H. V. Redfield and the Study of Southern Homicide," in H. V. Redfield, Homicide, North and South. Facsimile reprint of 1880 edition. Columbus: Ohio State University Press: vii-xxiv.

Eckberg, Douglas L. (2001) "Stalking the Elusive Homicide: A Capture-Recapture Approach to the Estimation of Post-Reconstruction South Carolina Killings." Social Science History 25: 67-91.

Eckberg, Douglas L. (2006) "Crime, Victimization, and the Criminal Justice System," in Susan Carter, Scott Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright, eds., Historical Statistics of the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Emmerichs, Mary Beth (1993) "Trials of Women for Homicide in Nineteenth-Century England." Women and Criminal Justice 5: 99-109.

Emmerichs, Mary Beth (2001) "Getting Away with Murder? Homicide and Coroners in Nineteenth-Century London." Social Science History 25: 93-100.

Gilje, Paul A. (1987) The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Gilje, Paul A. (1996) Rioting in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Gilje, Paul A. (2004) Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Society and Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hanawalt, Barbara (1979) Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Hanawalt, Barbara (1986) The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hanawalt, Barbara (1998) Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hanawalt, Barbara and David Wallace, eds. (1999) Medieval Crime and Social Control. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Iu, Petula (2004) "Arch Fiends and Moral Shipwrecks: Police Work, Criminal Insanity, and Masculinity in the Leopold-Loeb (1924) and Hickman (1927) Murder Kidnap-Cases." Ph.D. thesis: University of California at Los Angeles.

Johnson, Eric A. and Eric H. Monkkonen, eds. (1996) The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Lane, Roger (1967) Policing the City: Boston, 1822-1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lane, Roger (1979) Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lane, Roger (1986) Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lane, Roger (1991) William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lane, Roger (1997) Murder in America: A History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Maltz, Michael D. and Joseph Targonski (2002) "A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18: 297-318.

Maltz, Michael D. and Joseph Targonski (2003) "Measurement and Other Errors in County-Level UCR Data: A Reply to Lott and Whitley." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19: 199-206.

Maltz, Michael D. (2000) "Visualizing Lives: New Pathways for Analyzing Life Course Trajectories." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16: 255-281.

Maltz, Michael D. (1999) Bridging Gaps in Police Crime Data. Report No. NCJ1176365, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Marietta, Jack and G. S. Rowe (1999) "Personal Violence in 'A Peaceable Kingdom'" in Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, ed., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America: 22-44. New York: Routledge.

Marietta, Jack D. and G. S. Rowe (1999) "Violent Crime, Victims, and Society in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800," Explorations in Early American Culture, 66: 24-54.

Marietta, Jack D. and G. S. Rowe (2001) "Rape, Law, Courts, and Custom in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800," in Merril Smith, ed., Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America. New York: New York University Press: 81-102.

Marietta, Jack D. and G. S. Rowe (2006) Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

McKanna, Clare V. (1997) Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

McKanna, Clare V. (2002) Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press.

McKanna, Clare V. (2003) The Trial of "Indian Joe": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

McKanna, Clare V. (2003) "Black Enclaves of Violence: Race and Homicide in Great Plains Cities, 1890-1920," Great Plains Quarterly 23: 147-59.

McKanna, Clare V. (2004) "Enclaves of Violence in Nineteenth-Century California." Pacific Historical Review 73: 391-423.

McKanna, Clare V. (2005) "White Justice in Arizona: Apache Murder Trials in the Nineteenth Century" just released. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press."

McMahon, Richard, ed. (2008) Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900. Portland, Oregon: Willan Publishing.

McNair, Glenn (1999) "The Elijah Burritt Affair: David Walker's Appeal and Partisan Journalism in Antebellum Milledgeville." Georgia Historical Quarterly.

McNair, Glenn (2001) "Justice Bound: Aframericans, Crime and Criminal Justice in Georgia, 1751-1865." Ph.D. disseration, Emory University.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (1975) The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (1981) Police in Urban America, 1860-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (1995a) "New York City Homicides: A Research Note," Social Science History, 19: 201-14.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (1995b) "Racial Factors in New York City Homicide, 1800-1874," in Darnell Hawkins, ed., Ethnicity, Race, and Crime: Perspectives Across Time and Space. Albany: 99-120. Reprinted in Weis and Keppel (1999) Murder: A Multidisciplinary Anthology of Readings. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (1999) "New York City Homicide Offender Ages: How Variable? A Research Note." Homicide Studies, 3: 256-270.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (2001a) "Estimating the Accuracy of Historic Homicide Rates: New York City and Los Angeles." Social Science History 25: 53-66.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (2001b) Murder in New York City. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (2001c) "New Standards for Historical Violence Research." Crime, History, Society (Switzerland), 5: 5-26.

Monkkonen, Eric H. (2003) "Homicide in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago." Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 92: 101-14.

Mullen, Kevin J. (1989) Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco. Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Mullen, Kevin J. (2005) Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rice, James Douglas (1994) Crime and Punishment in Frederick County and Maryland, 1748-1837: A Study in Culture, Society, and Law. Ph.D dissertation: University of Maryland at College Park.

Roth, Randolph (1994) "The Other Masonic Outrage: The Death and Transfiguration of Joseph Burnham." Journal of the Early Republic 14: 35-69.

Roth, Randolph (1997) "'Blood Calls for Vengeance!' The History of Capital Punishment in Vermont." Vermont History 65: 10-25.

Roth, Randolph (1999) "Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865," in C. Daniels and M. V. Kennedy, eds., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge.

Roth, Randolph (2001a) "Child Murder in New England." Social Science History 25: 101-47.

Roth, Randolph (2001b) "Homicide in early modern England, 1550-1800: The need for a quantitative synthesis," Crime, History, and Societies 5: 2: 33-67.

Roth, Randolph (2002) "Guns, Gun Culture, and Homicide: The Relationship between Firearms, the Uses of Firearms, and Interpersonal Violence." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 59: 223-40.

Roth, Randolph (2003) "Counting Guns: What Social Science Historians Know and Could Learn about Gun Ownership, Gun Culture, and Gun Violence in the United States." Social Science History 26: 699-708.

Roth, Randolph (2006) "Twin Evils: The Relationship between Slavery and Homicide in New England, the Chesapeake, and the Shenandoah Valley, 1677-1800," in S. Mintz and J. Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Roth, Randolph (2007) "Guns, Murder, and Probability: How Can We Decide Which Figures to Trust?" Reviews in American History 35: 165-75.

Roth, Randolph (2007) "Twin Evils? Slavery and Homicide in Early America," in Steven Mintz and John Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Roth, Randolph, Douglas L. Eckberg, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Kenneth Wheeler, James Watkinson, Robb Haberman, and James M. Denham (2008) "The Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime and Violent Death." Historical Methods 41: 81-98.

Roth, Randolph (2009) American Homicide. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Schwarz, Philip J. (1988) Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Schwarz, Philip J. (1996) Slave Laws in Virginia. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Schwarz, Philip J. (2001) Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Snyder, Terri L. (1999) "'As if there was not master or woman in the land': Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence Virginia, 1646-1720," in Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy eds., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 219-236.

Snyder, Terri L. (2000) "Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," in Merril D. Smith, ed., Sex Without Consent: Sexual Coercion in Early America. New York: 46-60.

Snyder, Terri L. (2003) Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Spierenburg, Pieter (1984) The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Spierenburg, Pieter (1991) The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and their Inmates in Early Modern Europe. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Spierenburg, Pieter (1994) "Faces of Violence: Homicide Trends and Cultural Meanings. Amsterdam, 1431-1816." Journal of Social History 27: no. 4: 701-16.

Spierenburg, Pieter (1996) "Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Theoretical Reflections and Dutch Evidence, Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries," in: Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen, eds., The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages. Urbana: University of Illinois Press: 63-105.

Spierenburg, Pieter, ed. (1998) Men and Violence: Gender, Honor and Rituals in Modern Europe and America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Spierenburg, Pieter (2001) "Violence and the Civilizing Process: Does it Work?" Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/ Crime, History & Societies 5: no. 2: 87-105.

Spierenburg, Pieter (2004) Written in Blood: Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Stickley, Andrew and P. Carlson (2005) "Alcohol and Homicide in Early Twentieth Century Russia." Contemporary Drug Problems 32: 501-23.

Stickley, Andrew, and Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen, (2005) "Homicide in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union." British Journal of Criminology 45 (5) 647-670.

Stickley, Andrew (2006) On Interpersonal Violence in Russia in the Present and the Past: A Sociological Study. Ph.D. thesis: Stockholm University.

Stickley, A. and W. A. Pridemore (2007) "The Social-Structural Correlates of Homicide in Late-Tsarist Russia." British Journal of Criminology 47(1): 80-99.

Turchin, Peter (2003) Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Turchin, Peter (2006) War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. New York: Pi Press.

Turchin, Peter (2008) “Arise Cliodynamics.” Nature 454:34-35.  

Vandal, Gilles (1983) The New Orleans Riot of 1866: The Anatomy of a Tragedy. Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Vandal, Gilles (2000) Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Watkinson, James D. (2000) "Rogues, Vagabonds, and Fit Objects: The Poor in Antebellum Virginia." Virginia Cavalcade (Winter 2000).

Watkinson, James D. (2001) "'Fit Objects of Charity': Community, Race, Faith, and Welfare in Antebellum Lancaster County, Virginia." Journal of the Early Republic 21: 41-70.

Wheeler, Kenneth H. (1993) 'My God What Did You Do It For?' Homicide and Society in Ross and Holmes Counties, Ohio, 1796-1880. M.A. thesis: Ohio State University.

Wheeler, Kenneth H. (1997) "Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Ohio." Journal of Social History 31: 407-18.

Wheeler, Kenneth H. (1999) "Local Autonomy and Civil War Draft Resistance: Holmes County, Ohio." Civil War History 45: 147-59.

Related Publications by Historians and Social Scientists:

Azrael, Deborah, Catherine Barber, David Hemenway, and Matthew Miller (2003) "Data on Violent Injury," in Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds., Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence. Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution Press, 412-38.

Bowman, Cynthia Grant and Ben Alman (2002) "Wife Murder in Chicago, 1910-1930." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 92: 739-90.

Gould, Roger V. (1995) Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gould, Roger V. (2003) Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tilly, Charles (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tilly, Charles (2006) Regimes and Repetoires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wiener, Martin J. (2004) Men of Blood: Contesting Violence in Victorian England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Related Publications by Forensic Archaeologists:

Larsen, Clark S. (1997) Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Steckel, Richard H. and Jerome C. Rose, eds. (2002) The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Walker, Philip L. (1997) "Wife beating, boxing, and broken noses: Skeletal evidence for the cultural patterning of interpersonal violence," in D. Martin and D. Frayer, eds., Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past. Amsterdam: Gordon and Beach, 145-79.

Walker, Philip L. (forthcoming) "Is the battered-child syndrome a modern phenomena?" Proceedings of the Xth European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Goettingen, Germany.