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10 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 1 (1973)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd10 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency VOLUME 10 JANUARY 1973 NUMBER 1 Homicide in Chicago, 1965-1970 RICHARD BLOCK Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Ph.D., 1969, University of Chicago FRANKLIN E. ZIMRING Professor of Law and Associate Director, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago J.D., 1967, University of Chicago Rates of criminal homicide have been increasing in many ma- jor metropolitan areas. In Chicago from 1965 to 1970; the rate of homicides noted by the police more than doubled. A study of patterns of homicide during that period reveals that robbeiy- -killings, killings involving younger victims and offenders, group- related killings, and gun killings all increased far more substan- tially than aggregate homicide rates. Homicide offense rates for black males aged 15-24 almost tripled during the six years, while victimization among the same group more than tripled. The dramatic increase in robbery killings appeared to be but one manifestation of a broader increase in young, group-related, gun homicides. T HE MOST RECENT GENERATION Of studies in patterns of criminal homicide has emphasized the static analysis of police-reported data in ma- jor American metropolitan areas. In- formation is gathered on the number of homicides that took place in a given period-either a year or a series of years compressed into a single sam- ple-and analysis of the data treats the different killings in different peri- ods of time as part of a single observa- tion of what is implicitly assumed to be a stable phenomenon.' Yet, if rates of criminal homicide are used as a measure, violent killing in the major metropolitan areas of the United States is anything but a stable phenom- 1. See, e.g., Marvin E. Wolfgang, Patterns in Criminal Homicide (Philadelphia: Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1958); Palerns in Crim- inal Homicide in Baltimore (Baltimore: Bal- timore Crime Commission, 1964); David J. Pittman and William Handy, Patterns in Criminal Aggravated Assault, Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, December 1964, pp. 462-70. Some earlier sociological work in homicide in the United States stressed time fluctuations. See, e.g., Andrew F. Henry and James F. Short, Suicide and Homicide (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1954) . Classic early investigations of homicide in Europe stressed analysis of patterns oset time. I

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