The Ecology of HomicideLike so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, concentrated in the low income African American populations living within particular neighborhoods. In The Ecology of Homicide, Schneider tracks the history of