Contributors
- Contributors
Jeffrey S. Adler is associate professor of history and criminology at the University of Florida. He is completing a book on homicide in Chicago from 1875 to 1920, and his most recent publications on the history of urban violence have included essays on domestic homicide that have appeared in the Journal of Social History (1997) and the Journal of Urban History (1999).
Elizabeth Dale is an assistant professor of legal history at the University of Florida and previously taught at Clemson University. Her book The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis will be published in 2001.
Douglas Eckberg is professor and chair of sociology at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C. He is studying the problem of the “dark figure” of historical murder counts, stressing the development of new data series and statistical models to help address the problem. Recent work on the project has appeared in Demography 32 (1995). He is editor of the chapter on crime and corrections for Historical Statistics of the United States (forthcoming), and he contributed the introductory essay to the republication of H.V. Redfield’s 1880 Homicide, North and South (2000).
Mary Beth Emmerichs is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan, a campus of the University of Wisconsin Colleges. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. For the past three years she has been reading thousands of coroners’ inquest reports in order to study the reliability of English homicide rates in the nineteenth century.
Roger Lane is the Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor at Haverford College. His most recent book is Murder in America: A History (1997).
Eric Monkkonen is professor of history and policy studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Randolph Roth is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is a member of the editorial board of Historical Methods and is the author [End Page 149] of The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order of the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1850 (1987).He is currently completing an interregional study of violent crime and violent death in America, titled Why Northern New Englanders Seldom Commit Murder: How America Became a Homicidal Nation. [End Page 150]
