As a former member of the Chicago police department, a practicing Chicago attorney and longtime member of the Chicago City Council, I am intrigued by political homicide in Chicago. The colorful mayhem and peculiar prairie personality of Chicago provides us with no lack of curious cases and characters on which to focus our investigations. Over the past three decades I have had a front row seat from which to observe that home grown Chicago phenomenon known as "political suicide." I am sure you too can recall those fascinating episodes of local politics in which notable Chicago politicians have crashed and burned. Often we can identify the telltale wounds that have resulted as largely being self-inflicted. You might remember the surprise snowstorm in early 1979 during the tenure of Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Many Chicagoans found themselves trapped by the blizzard-like conditions and were enraged at the weather. Chiding Mayor Bilandic for not being fast enough to remove the snow, the storm became the vehicle for the Mayor's ousting during the election that ironically followed on the heels of the storm.
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Homicide rates are understood in large part by comparison. Almost without thinking we compare this year to last, this place to that. Usually we make modest leaps in time and space, taking adjacent sites and time periods in an effort to hold constant otherwise uncontrollable factors. But, in keeping the comparisons modest, we may lose the leverage necessary to make sense of rates. Simply put, the theoretical questions we must address are very different if the United States has always had rates and short term variations similar to those of the present as opposed to completely different ones. If, for example, the highs of 1990 and the lows of 1999 represent a range within which rates have always fluctuated, then the objects to be explained are customary and normal. If, on the other hand, they are extraordinary, or occur only in particular times and places, the explanatory task is very different. Establishing American homicide rates for a wide range of times and places is fundamental to our understanding of homicide. As a beginning of this effort, this paper reports on reconstructed homicide rates from six large and representative cities for 1900, and for what were the nation's two largest cities-Chicago and New York City-over a long span. In order to compare homicide rates from places separated by long distances in time or space, one must take more care than is customary to make data similar.' Comparing this year's count to last
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There are at least two exciting aspects of the files available to the authors of this volume. One is the age and range of the data-the fact that these accounts of Chicago homicides cover a sixty-year period that starts in 1870.1 In addition, these historical accounts of deaths reported to the Chicago police contain a surprising amount of detail. Because of the amount of detail and number of cases available, we can focus on family homicides-homicides where the victim and offender are related by birth or marriage, by more or less permanent living arrangements, or by some apparent degree of emotional attachment combined with a desire or plan to create a family. One obvious question about these cases concerns the extent to which family homicides have changed over the sixty-one year period for which information is available. Another obvious question concerns the ways in which these earlier family homicides are different from or similar to contemporary accounts of family homicide. Any comparison of these accounts with contemporary studies will be complicated by the definitions of family homicides that are used. One contemporary approach to the use of very similar information focuses on intimate partner violence or violence by intimates. "Intimates" in these studies have generally referred to people who are husbands, wives, boyfriends, or girlfriends.2 Other family members are ignored in this focus on intimates. In part, this approach probably reflects a concern for male violence against women. Although the intimate partner studies include discussions of homicides committed by women, much of the emphasis in them is on the victimization of women. Another reason some researchers have limited the discus-
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The facts of the case as reported here are confirmed by several independent sources, including copies of original records obtained from the Office of the Clerk of Criminal Court of Cook County1, and from other sources. The original records were obtained from the Office of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Cook County included the following: The case was Case No. 33802, People v. Prendergast, and the jury verdict was filed December 29, 1893. The records include the original typed instructions on the law to the jury, including the instructions on the imposition of the penalty of death and the instructions on the insanity defense. The original record includes the signed verdict sheet finding the defendant guilty of murder and fixing the sentence at death, signed by the twelve jurors and certified by John C. Schubert, Clerk. The record also includes several medical opinions and notes. One note on medical stationery dated December 15, 1893, directed to the State's Attorney Jacob Kern, by Dr. Brower finds the defendant: "insane (medically) and that the form of insanity if paranoia As to his legal insanity, which as I understand it, is about synonymous with
{"title":"Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago","authors":"L. Bienen, T. J. O'Gorman","doi":"10.2307/1144244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144244","url":null,"abstract":"The facts of the case as reported here are confirmed by several independent sources, including copies of original records obtained from the Office of the Clerk of Criminal Court of Cook County1, and from other sources. The original records were obtained from the Office of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Cook County included the following: The case was Case No. 33802, People v. Prendergast, and the jury verdict was filed December 29, 1893. The records include the original typed instructions on the law to the jury, including the instructions on the imposition of the penalty of death and the instructions on the insanity defense. The original record includes the signed verdict sheet finding the defendant guilty of murder and fixing the sentence at death, signed by the twelve jurors and certified by John C. Schubert, Clerk. The record also includes several medical opinions and notes. One note on medical stationery dated December 15, 1893, directed to the State's Attorney Jacob Kern, by Dr. Brower finds the defendant: \"insane (medically) and that the form of insanity if paranoia As to his legal insanity, which as I understand it, is about synonymous with","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68412792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The death penalty: An American history","authors":"Br Ferrall","doi":"10.5860/choice.40-1754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-1754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71092304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crime: Public policies for crime control","authors":"R. Rosenfeld","doi":"10.2307/1144315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68414074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from the past, living in the present: Understanding homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930","authors":"L. Bienen, Brandon Rottinghaus","doi":"10.2307/1144237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68413057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Owing to the extreme youth of the accused”: The changing legal response to juvenile homicide","authors":"David S. Tanenhaus, Steven A. Drizin","doi":"10.2307/1144240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68412640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
supra note 64, at 8. 204 Id. at 16. 205 Id. at 14.
上注64，第8页。204 Id。在16岁。205 Id。14岁。
{"title":"Cook County Criminal Law Practice in 1929: A Community's Response to Crime and a Notorious Trial","authors":"Thomas F. Geraghty","doi":"10.2307/1144238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144238","url":null,"abstract":"supra note 64, at 8. 204 Id. at 16. 205 Id. at 14.","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68412603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fisher Goes on the Quintessential Fishing Expedition and Hubbell is Off the Hook","authors":"H. R. Uviller","doi":"10.2307/1144267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1144267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2001-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1144267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68413351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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