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Randolph Roth (Ph.D. Yale University, 1981) is Associate Professor of History. His research interests focus on the history of the United States from colonial times through the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on social and cultural history, the history of crime and violence, quantitative methods, and social theory. He is currently conducting an interregional study of homicide from colonial times to the present. This research examines patterns of child murder, marital murder, romantic murder, and other kinds of murder in an effort to understand how and why the United States has become the world’s most homicidal industrial democracy. Roth is co-founder of the Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime and Violent Death which is maintained through CJRC.