Books by Eric H. Monkkonen

Expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. This title covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining statistical evidence with many other documentary sources to tease out the story behind the figures.

This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.