Title: Decivilization in the 1960s
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Decivilization in the 1960s
Steven Pinker
Figure two - Homicide rates in US and England 1900-2000
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Decivilization in the 1960s
Steven Pinker
From THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: WHY VIOLENCE HAS DECLINED, copyright © 2011 by Steven Pinker. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., contract ♯ 514089
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Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2013
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.11217607.0002.206
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For all the lags and mismatches between the historical trajectories of the United States and Europe, they did undergo one trend in synchrony: their rates of violence did a U-turn in the 1960s. [ 1] Figure one, Homicide rates in five western European countries 1300-2000, shows that European countries underwent a bounce in homicide rates that brought them back to levels they had said goodbye to a century before. Figure one - Homicide rates in five western European countries 1300-2000
And figure two, Homicide rates in US and England 1900-2000, shows that in the 1960s the homicide rate in America went through the roof. Figure two - Homicide rates in US and England 1900-2000
After a three-decade free fall that spanned the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Americans multiplied their homicide rate by more than two and a half, from a low of 4.0 in 1957 to a high of 10.2 in 1980 (U.S. Bureau of Statistics; Fox and Zawitz: 2007).