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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Adler, Jeffrey S. |
| Title, Analytic | “If We Can’t Live in Peace, We Might as Well Die”: Homicide-Suicide in Chicago, 1875-1910 |
| Journal Title | Journal of Urban History |
| Date of Publication | Nov. 1999 |
| Volume ID | 26 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 3-21 |
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| Abstract | "Germans were enormously overrepresented in [turn-of-the-century] Chicago homicide-suicides. . . . [T]hese immigrants committed homicide-suicide at more than double their proportion of the city's population. Germans comprised less than 10 percent of Chicago residents, yet they committed at least 23 percent of the city's homicide-suicides. . . . These residents [committed] suicide after homicide at more than five times the overall rate for the city--50 percent of German immigrants who committed murder also committed suicide, compared to 9.6 percent of all killers in the City." |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical notes. |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Chicago (Ill.)/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Crime/ Homicide/ Murder/ Suicide |