MEN OF BLOOD Murder in Modern England.

Hardback. By all the conventional criminological criteria of collapsing industries, economic disparities, dysfunctional families and racial tensions, England should have a very high murder rate and a production of 'psychopathic' killers comparable to America's. Yet it has neither. In this book the author focuses on murder in England, but pursues several parallel themes: one is to show how public fear of murder is inaproppriate, another is the historical, social and cultural origin of England's comparatively low murder rate - the civilising process. With Appendix. 261pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw.