Description: Making Murder Public explores the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter and the significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other.
Review Quotes: "Making Murder Public significantly advances our understanding of the making of a larger collective in England during the Early Modern period. It is far more than just a book about crime and should be read widely. It is also well written and richly documented." -- Samuel Clark, University of Western Ontario, Canadian Journal of History