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Race And Homicide In Nineteenth-Century California (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)
Clare V. McKanna
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Description for Race And Homicide In Nineteenth-Century California (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)
Paperback. Examines coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state's embryonic justice system. This book explains that the nature of crimes varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators and victims, as did the conduct and results of trials and sentencing patterns. Num Pages: 168 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFE; JFSL; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common, and legal responses varied broadly.Available now for the first time in paperback, ""Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California"" examines coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary and printed sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state's embryonic justice system. Author Clare V McKanna discovers that the nature of crimes varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators ... Read more
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common, and legal responses varied broadly.Available now for the first time in paperback, ""Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California"" examines coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary and printed sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state's embryonic justice system. Author Clare V McKanna discovers that the nature of crimes varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874177282
SKU
V9780874177282
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99-15
About Clare V. McKanna
Clare V. McKanna Jr. is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West. His essays on ethnicity, violence, prison, and homicide have appeared in numerous academic journals, including Western Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, American Indian Quarterly, Journal of San Diego History, and Western Legal History. He is lecturer in departments of history and American Indian studies ... Read more
Reviews for Race And Homicide In Nineteenth-Century California (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)
"McKanna's research... implicitly and explicitly illustrates how much violent activity was once interracial, as contrasted with contemporary statistics indicating that homicide within racial or ethnic groups is more often the norm.... McKanna concludes his study with an engaging foray into the occasionally contentious discussions about the extent of violence in the West. In providing a detailed account of how whites ... Read more