Acknowledgments

Douglas Eckberg thanks the following people and institutions for providing data. Gary Kleck supplied published and unpublished data on firearm availability and possession. Marie Pees of the Bureau of the Census provided unpublished data on custody in training schools for juvenile delinquents and in detention centers, from a special tabulation of 1990 Census data. Eric Monkkonen and Roger Lane shared historical homicide data for New York City and Philadelphia. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck provided data on lynching in ten Southern states, while W. Fitzhugh Brundage provided data on the state of Virginia and additional data on the state of Georgia. The Federal Bureau of Investigation provided unpublished data on crimes and arrests. The work was made possible by a sabbatical leave granted the author by Winthrop University.