Part one: Summarize the “cross-cultural constructions of murder.”Part two: Summarize the “history of murder in the United States.”Part three: How do “positivistic” social scientists use the concept of “social capital” to explain varying rates of murder across communities?Part four: How do “interactional” social scientists seek to understand the situations in which murders occur?

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