Violent Old West

Homicide Rates in the Nineteenth-Century West: Tables Randolph Roth (July 2010 version) [pic] Historical Violence Database deplorable evaluator Research Center Ohio State University Table 1 Homicide Rates in Nine California Counties, 1850-1865 (per 100,000 persons ages 16 and older per year) HomicidesAve. annual grown pop.Homicide adult pop.

at risk rate Ranching counties Los Angeles 221 6,984 111,741 198 San Diego 27 4,401 70,415 38 San Luis Obispo 40 1,095 17,523 228 Santa Barbara 36 1,953 31,245 115 exclusively ranching 324 14,433 230,924 140 Counties Mining counties Calaveras 133 15,483 247,729 54 Tuolumne 273 13,582 217,304 126 All digging 406 29,065 465,033 87 counties Commercial or agricultural counties Sacramento 117 15,592 249,474 47 San Joaquin 62 6,344 101,500 61 SanFrancisco 99 40,368 645,888 31 All commercial or 378 62,304 996,862 38 agricultural counties All nine counties 1,108 105,8021,692,819 65 Sources: The data from San Francisco (compiled from newspapers, because of the leaving of the citys legal records) be from Kevin J. Mullen, Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in other(a) San Francisco (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989); and Mullen, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and brutal Violence in the urban West, 1850-2000 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). The data from Los Angeles (compiled from court records, coroners inquests, newspapers, and other sources) are from Eric H. Monkkonen, Los Angeles Homicides, 1830-2001 [computer file] (Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles; Columbus: Historical Violence Database: Criminal Justice Research Center, Ohio State University, distributor, 2005). The data from... If you want to play a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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