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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Eric Henry Monkkonen was an American urban and social science historian who conducted authoritative studies on the history of crime as well as urban development. His work produced evidence that countered and overturned many assumptions, such as that crime rates are higher in urban areas, and increased during post-war periods and economic downturns. His works on the history of crime in several cities were extensive, cataloging close to every recorded homicide in New York City since 1798, and every homicide in Los Angeles since 1827, and conducting extensive studies on several more cities, primarily in the Western world. At one time he believed that murder was largely "a problem of men", and that "If men take charge of anything ... it must be of the notion that real men don't kill, that self-respect means shrugging off an insult, and that the better manliness accrues to him who does not fight. Other countries have done this, and so can the United States."

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Eric Henry Monkkonen's Published Works

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Police in Urban America, 1860–1920 (1982) (156)
The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages (1998) (89)
America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980 (1989) (70)
Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City. (1977) (59)
History of Urban Police (1992) (57)
The dangerous class : crime and poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885 (1976) (44)
A Disorderly People? Urban Order in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1981) (42)
New Standards for Historical Homicide Research (2001) (40)
Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790-1935 (1984) (39)
The Local State: Public Money and American Cities (1998) (39)
Lethal imagination : violence and brutality in American history (2000) (33)
East Side--West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-1950 (1985) (33)
Five Centuries of Violence in Finland and the Baltic Area (2002) (29)
The Dangers of Synthesis (1986) (26)
Homicide: explaining America's exceptionalism. (2006) (24)
Engaging the past : the uses of history across the social sciences (1994) (21)
From Cop History to Social History: The Significance of the Police in American History (1982) (19)
America Becomes Urban: The Development of U. S. Cities & Towns, 1780–1980 (1989) (19)
America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980. (1989) (18)
Police deaths in New York and London during the twentieth century (2006) (17)
Estimating the Accuracy of Historic Homicide Rates (2001) (17)
CRIME, JUSTICE, HISTORY (2002) (14)
The dangerous class (1975) (14)
Homicide in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago (2002) (11)
The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885. (1977) (11)
New York City Offender Ages (1999) (10)
Systematic Criminal Justice History: Some Suggestions (1979) (10)
Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878, by Michael Stephen Hindus (1980) (10)
Lessons of Social Science History (1994) (9)
New York City Homicides (1995) (7)
The Challenge of Quantitative History (1984) (7)
The American State from the Bottom Up: Of Homicides and Courts (1990) (6)
What Urban Crisis? (1985) (6)
CHAPTER 10: Nineteenth-Century Institutions: Dealing with the Urban "Underclass" (1993) (5)
Homicide in Los Angeles, 18272002 (2005) (5)
The Organized Response to Crime in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America (1983) (5)
Toward a Dynamic Theory of Crime and the Police: A Criminal Justice System Perspective (1977) (5)
The dynamics of police behavior: A data reanalysis (1991) (5)
A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton. (1990) (4)
Counting Guns (2002) (4)
As Cities Become History (1987) (4)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: The historical development of the police (1981) (3)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: A narrowing of function (1981) (3)
Prisons and jails (1992) (3)
Toward an Understanding of Urbanization: Drunk Arrests in Los Angeles (1981) (3)
Estimating the Accuracy of Historic Homicide Rates: New York City and Los Angeles (2001) (3)
Policing and crime control (1992) (3)
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 18801970 (1978) (2)
The (Urban) World According to Monkkonen@@@America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980. (1992) (2)
Counting Cops and Crime@@@Police in Urban America, 1860-1920. (1982) (2)
Socializing the New Urbanites: Horatio Alger Jr.'s Guidebooks (1977) (2)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Introduction (1981) (1)
The American Response to Professional Crime, 1870–1917. By Larry K. Hartsfield. (Westport: Greenwood, 1985. x + 226 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $35.00.) (1986) (1)
Recent Historical Studies of Crime and Crime Control in the United States (1980) (1)
White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version. By Edwin H. Sutherland. With an introduction by Gilbert Geis and Colin Goff. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. xxxiii + 291 pp. $30.00.) (1984) (1)
Involving Survey Students in Primary Research (1978) (1)
The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910 Lawrence M. Friedman Robert V. Percival (1982) (1)
Reaction to David Garland on capital punishment (2005) (1)
Programmatic Constraints on Innovation. (1990) (1)
Cross-sectional and Dynamic Analyses of the Concomitants of Police Behavior (2011) (1)
Prostitution, Drugs, Gambling, and Organized Crime (1992) (1)
The Colonies and early Republic (1991) (1)
Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion (1990) (1)
Review of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin (1993) (1)
Arrest data sources (1981) (0)
Martin J. Wiener's most recent book, Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) (1993) (0)
Violence and theft (1992) (0)
5. Paupers in Franklin County, 1867–1881: The Poorhouse (1975) (0)
Theory and methods in criminal justice history (1992) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Synopsis of crime rates from previous studies (1981) (0)
Class or Culture?@@@Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850. (1981) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Arrest trends, 1860 – 1920 (1981) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Notes (1981) (0)
Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900–1940. by Jenna Weissman Joselit. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. xiii + 209 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, note on the sources, and index. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $9.95.) (1984) (0)
Sociology (1990) (0)
America Becomes Urban: The Development of U. S. Cities and Towns 1780-1980 (1989) (0)
Lagged police correlated with criminal arrests, by city (1981) (0)
Book Review: Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900, by Eric H. Monkkonen (1987) (0)
The Lawmen: United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989 Frederick S. Calhoun (1992) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Tramps and children: the decline of police welfare (1981) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Preface (1981) (0)
Book Review:Underworlds: Organized Crime in the Netherlands, 1650-1800. Florike Egmond (1996) (0)
2. An Ecological Analysis of Ohio, 1867–1883 (1975) (0)
Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New South Wales (1984) (0)
Los Angeles: The Enormous Village, 1781-1981 John D. Weaver (1982) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Police uniform adoption dates (1981) (0)
Book Review: The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 by STEPHAN THERNSTROM. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1976. pp. 345. £3.40 (ppb.) (1978) (0)
James A. Inciardi et al. Historical Approaches to Crime: Research Strategies and Issues. (Sage Library of Social Research, number 57.) Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications. 1977. Pp, 215. Cloth $14.00, paper $6.95 (1979) (0)
Introduction: History and the Other Social Sciences, Part 1 (1991) (0)
Courts and criminal procedure (1991) (0)
The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking our Response (review) (2004) (0)
The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking our Response. By Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. x plus 374 pp. $35.00) (2004) (0)
Book reviews (1983) (0)
Delinquency and disorderly behavior (1991) (0)
Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816–1970. By John C. Weaver (Montreal & Kingston: Mc-Gill Queen's University Press, 1995. xii plus 323pp. $55.00/cloth $24.95/paperback) (1996) (0)
Lost children, rank order correlations, individual city data, and a comparison of New York police/NYSPCC data (1981) (0)
3. Crime in Franklin County, 1859–1885 (1975) (0)
Do It Yourself Document Copying (1974) (0)
Why Counting Fails: An Insider's Critique (1987) (0)
General and Thematic (1983) (0)
Book reviews (1980) (0)
Police in urban America 1860–1920: Multiple regression tables and correlation matrices (1981) (0)
Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America Robert B. Fairbanks Kathleen Underwood (1991) (0)
A Municipal Mother: Portland's Lola Greene Baldwin, America's First Policewoman Gloria E. Myers (1996) (0)
Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (1982) (0)
Can You Count on the Down and Out to Stay Down for the Count in Columbus?@@@The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885. (1976) (0)
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographers of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925 John W. Reps (1985) (0)

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