Postwar American crime as entertainment -- Crime and punishment -- The historiography of criminal justice and violence in Britain and the United States -- Searching for the origins of American and European violence differences -- The puzzle of murder statistics: a search for cause and effect -- The violence conundrum -- Homicide over the centuries -- The American state from the bottom up: of homicides and courts -- Racial factors in the New York City homicides, 1800-1874 -- New York City offender ages: how variable over time? -- The dynamics of police behavior: a data reanalysis -- Crossing the (blue) line: the problem with commissions -- Policing in the United States, 1930-1972 -- History of urban police -- The power of "excuse me" -- Nineteenth-century institutions: dealing with the urban "underclass" -- A disorderly people? Urban order in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America -- American cities and the creation of order.
