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Making sense of violence ? Reflections on the history of interpersonal violence in Europe
- Source :
- Crime, Histoire & Sociétés. 17:5-26
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- OpenEdition, 2013.
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Abstract
- Over the last thirty years, historians of crime and criminal justice have taken a keen interest in the extent and nature of interpersonal violence in medieval, early modern and modern Europe. Drawing inspiration from Ted Robert Gurr’s ground-breaking study of long-term homicide rates from the late middle ages to the latter half of the twentieth century, historians have sought to map and explain long-term patterns in lethal interpersonal violence and, in particular, the reasons behind the seem...
Details
- ISSN :
- 16634837 and 14220857
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5c738f165307889dd29c320b78554341