On Mon Jun 12, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Dane Archer's actually done some interesting archival research on this.
> During the 20th century, murder rates are significantly higher when a
> country is at war or immediately following wartime.
Something about this seems counterintuitive. Was the murder rate in the US really higher in the 2 or 3 years after WWII or the Korean War than it was during the roaring 20s or the Great Depression?
Also most online summaries of Archer's work say that what he was looking at were surges in murder directly after wars -- which implies it didn't go up during. Which also seems to sit oddly with his thesis. Surely murder as an option is even more legitimated during the war than after?
These are pure curiosity questions posed to someone who's actually read and/or has a copy of the book handy.
Michael