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In 1992, 24,500 people were murdered in the United States, but at least 100,000 died as a result of occupational illnesses. Another 100,000 died because they could not afford adequate health care. The public is indignant when a child is murdered, yet each year about 12,000 infants die because of poverty. Why are Americans so concerned with street violence but less angry over the daily deaths resulting from the routine workings of our society?In this clearly written examination of class, racial, and gender violence in the contemporary United States, sociologist Barbara H. Chasin discusses the obvious violence of individual murder and assault in our society and also the less publicized violence caused by the routine workings of a society, and especially, of its stratification.Throughout this thoroughly researched book she stresses the connections between violence and economic, ethnic, and gender enequality.

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