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Crime and Violence

Alentieva, T. V., “Vosstanie Dzhona Brauna v otsenke sovremennikov” (The John Brown rebellion as viewed by contemporaries), Voprosy Istorii (Moscow) (no. 10, 2005), 98–109. In Russian.

Brown, Russell K., “Post–Civil War Violence in Augusta, Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2006), 196–213.

Brown, Yvonne, “Tolerance and Bigotry in Southwest Louisiana: The Ku Klux Klan, 1921–23,” Louisiana History, 47 (Spring 2006), 153–68.

Carter, John, “Tragedy at the Lone Oak,” Nebraska History, 87 (Spring 2006), 18–26. Heavily illustrated.

Mason, Patrick Q., “Anti-Jewish Violence in the New South,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), 77–119.

Meyers, Christopher C., “‘Killing Them by the Wholesale’: A Lynching Rampage in South Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2006), 214–35.

O’Brien, Robert M., “A Common Explanation for the Changing Age Distributions of Suicide and Homicide in the United States, 1930 to 2000,” Social Forces, 84 (March 2006), 1539–57.

Weinfeld, Daniel R., “Samuel Fleishman: Tragedy in Reconstruction-Era Florida,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), 31–76.

 

Agee, Christopher Lowen-Engel, “The Streets of San Francisco: Blacks, Beats, Homosexuals, and the San Francisco Police Department, 1950–1968” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3190796.

Laurein, S., “Organizovannaia prestupnost’ v Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki: Problemy I tendentsii (80-e gody XX veka-nachalo 2000-kh godov)” (Organized crime in the United States: Problems and tendencies [1980s–early 2000s]) (Moscow Humanitarian University, Russia, 2005). In Russian.

Lenza, Michael, “Politics of Death: A Statistical, Theoretical, and Historical Examination of the Death Penalty in Missouri” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005). Order No. DA3189935.

 

Theoharis, Athan G., The fbi & American Democracy: A Brief Critical History. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. x, 195 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-7006-1345-5.)

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