RT Research Data
T1 Violence in early modern England: a regional survey: Cheshire, 1600-1800
A1 Sharpe, J. A. 1946-
A2 Dickinson, Roger
LA English
PP Colchester
PB UK Data Service
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1876450193
AB The aim of this project was to carry out a systematic investigation and analysis of crimes of violence tried in the courts of the county of Cheshire, in the period 1601-1800. The core of the study is formed by details of homicides prosecuted at the Court of Great Sessions at Chester over this period, with supplementary data dealing with non-homicidal violence, notably from the County Quarter Sessions of Cheshire and the Chester City Sessions. As well as the quantitative results drawn from these samples, analysis of depositions and an account of a murder case in Saighton in 1648, published in the Cheshire Sheaf in 1937, allows the reconstruction of insights into the qualitative and attitudinal aspects of the history of violence. The objectives of the study were: firstly, to add new dimensions to the ongoing debate on the history of violence in England; secondly, to gain insights through the history of violence into the changing social psychology of the early modern English; and, thirdly, to provide a body of material on violence from a past culture which will provide useful points of comparison for studies of violence in modern Britain, as well as providing a body of findings against which current theoretical assumptions about violence might be tested.
K1 Accidents
K1 Assault
K1 Bereavement
K1 causes of death
K1 court officials and personnel
K1 court records
K1 Courts
K1 crime and securiry
K1 crime victims
K1 Criminals
K1 Death Penalty
K1 Gender
K1 grid references
K1 Homicide
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Judges
K1 judgments (law)
K1 law and justice
K1 legal procedure
K1 Occupations
K1 offences
K1 periodicals
K1 Personal Names
K1 Punishment
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.5255/UKDA-SN-4429-1