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Murder in America: a history

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Murder in America: a history
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Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 0814207324
ISBN-13: 9780814207321
Number of pages: 399

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This book is the first serious study of the history of criminal homicide in America, reaching from precolonial times to the age of the O. J. Simpson trial. Noted historian Roger Lane provides this much-needed overview of the history of murder and our culture's responses to it.

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