pt. 1. Homicide trends: The crime generation grows up right on schedule ; The calm before the crime wave storm ; An effective response to teenage crime is possible ; A longer view on the rise and fall of crime ; Spousal murders are declining -- pt. 2. Youth homicide: Translating concern about juvenile violence into collective action ; Hurting animals is an important clue ; Our new pastime ; Who's minding the kids? ; Mr. and Mrs. Bueller's night in jail -- pt. 3. School shootings: Again! : school attacks show need for new strategies ; Schools learning a grim lesson ; School violence : easy solutions that won't work and difficult ones that will ; A few bad apples ; Filling the after-school wasteland ; Responding to school violence ; A failing grade in response to Columbine -- pt. 4. Rampage: When misery has no company ; Termination can be murder ; American workplace need humanizing ; Postal violence : cycle of despair turns tragic ; Placing the blame for the Palm Bay massacre -- pt. 5. Hate homicide: Hatred : too close for comfort ; Is American culture to blame for the Oklahoma tragedy? ; German violence : are we next? ; Are we seeing a backlash to hate crime legislation? ; Shooting at the ivory tower -- pt. 6. Serial murder: Serial killers : how the statistics mislead us ; The menace of serial murder ; Andrew Cunanan : America's bogey man ; Facts, not fluff -- pt. 7. Culture of killing: We're veering off course ; A culture that's ripe to sustain evil ; Two thumbs down for TV ratings -- pt. 8. Guns: The gun control debate needs some middle ground ; Bush blocks fight against assault guns ; The assault weapons ban does more harm than good -- pt. 9. Justice system response to murder: Safety's on the line ; Effective police departments not built solely on test scores ; Get smart, not tough, on juvenile crime ; John Salvi's insanity was ignored ; Does Salvi's suicide show new insanity plea needed? ; When crime pays and punishment doesn't fit the crime ; When the end justifies the means ; Stop sending folks to jail -- pt. 10. Capital punishment: Life without hope ; Is the death sentence justice or vengeance? ; A freeze on executions ; The Senate's empty gesture ; Too easy to kill -- pt. 11. Victims: San Ysidro's shameful apathy ; A train tragedy humanized.
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