RT Book
T1 Nordic homicide in deep time: lethal violence in the early modern era and present times
A1 Kivivuori, Janne
A1 Rautelin, Mona
A1 Netterstrøm, Jeppe Büchert
A2 Rautelin, Mona
A2 Netterstrøm, Jeppe Büchert
LA English
PP Helsinki
PB Helsinki University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/183481992X
AB Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. Similar and continuous societal structures, cultural patterns, and legal cultures allow for long-term and comparative homicide research in the Nordic context. Reflecting human universals and stable motives, such as revenge, jealousy, honour, and material conflicts, homicide as a form of human behaviour enables long-duration comparison. By describing the rates and patterns of homicide during these two eras, the authors unveil continuity and change in human violence. Where and when did homicide typically take place? Who were the victims and the offenders, what where the circumstances of their conflicts? Was intimate partner homicide more prevalent in the early modern period than in present times? How long a time elapsed from violence to death? Were homicides often committed in the context of other crime? The book offers answers to these questions among others, comparing regions and eras. We gain a unique and empirically grounded view on how state consolidation and changing routines of everyday life transformed the patterns of criminal homicide in Nordic society. The path to pacification was anything but easy, punctuated by shorter crises of social turmoil, and high violence. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of homicide variation across space and over time
AB In developing a new approach for extending homicide research into the deep past, the authors have created the Historical Homicide Monitor. The new instrument combines wide explanatory scope, measurement standardization, and articulated theory expression. By retroactively expanding research data to the pre-statistical era, the method enables long-duration comparison of different periods and areas. Based on in-depth source critique, the approach captures patterns of criminal behaviour, beyond the control activity of the courts. The authors foresee the application of their approach in even remoter periods. Nordic Homicide in Deep Time helps the reader to understand modern homicide by revealing the historical continuities and changes in lethal violence. The book is written for professionals, university students and anyone interested in the history of human behaviour
SN 978-952-369-062-2
K1 väkivalta
K1 väkivaltarikokset
K1 henkirikokset
K1 murha
K1 tappo
K1 kriminologia
K1 historiallinen kriminologia
K1 historiantutkimus
K1 Kriminologi
K1 brott mot liv
K1 Historia
K1 mord
K1 historisk kriminologi
K1 historieforskning
K1 våldsbrott
K1 dråp
K1 Pohjois-Eurooppa
K1 Suomi
K1 Ruotsi
K1 Tanska
K1 Pohjoismaat
K1 Nordeuropa
K1 Finland
K1 Sverige
K1 Danmark
K1 Norden