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Why is American history so murderous?

(New Yorker) - The United States has the highest homicide
rate of any affluent democracy, nearly four times that of
France and the United Kingdom, and six times that of
Germany. Why? Historians haven’t often asked this question.
Even historians who like to try to solve cold cases usually
cede to sociologists and other social scientists the study
of what makes murder rates rise and fall, or what might
account for why one country is more murderous than another.
Only in the nineteen-seventies did historians begin
studying homicide in any systematic way. In the United
States, that effort was led by Eric Monkkonen, who died in
2005, his promising work unfinished. Monkkonen’s research
has been taken up by Randolph Roth, whose book “American
Homicide” (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/AmericanHomicide )
offers a vast investigation of murder, in the aggregate,
and over time. Roth’s argument is profoundly unsettling.
There is and always has been, he claims, an American way of
murder. It is the price of our politics...

Continued: http://xrl.us/AmericanHomicideReview

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