Historians and sociologists have long been puzzled by the falling rates of interpersonal violence over the course of the past few centuries.  Despite a few upticks at localized moments, murder rates have been falling in urban areas contrary what one might expect.  William (Bill) Reimer, author of Revisiting "Toronto the Good": Violence, Religion and Culture in a Late Victorian City, looks at this phenomenon at the micro-level via an exploration of a Canadian "city of churches" in the late...

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