Urban Homicide in Theory and Fact

Abstract

This study is designed to supply the factual basis of a theory which, we hope, will explain the systematic connection between homicides and the places where they occur.An interest in developing a purely descriptive account of the incidence of criminal homicides in a large metropolis has motivated the accumulation of the facts in the first instance.However, we soon observed phenomena which are not adequately explained by existing criminological theories.It is for this reason that we have sought to develop a more satisfactory theory.