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dc.contributor.authorKoskivirta, Anu
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-02 19:41:03
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:58:33Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:58:33Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier617205
dc.identifierOCN: 982228309en_US
dc.identifier.issn0355-8924;1458-526X
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32112
dc.description.abstract"This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland. At that time, these were completely agricultural regions on the periphery of the kingdom of Sweden. Indeed the majority of the population still got their living from burn-beating agriculture. The analysis of homicide there reveals characteristics that were exceptional by Western European standards: the large proportion of premeditated homicides (murders) and those within the family is more reminiscent of modern cities in the West than of a pre-modern rural society. However, there also existed some archaic forms of Western crime there. Most of the homicides within the family were killings of brothers or brothers-in law, connected with the family structure (the extended family) that prevailed in the region. This study uses case analysis to explore the causes for the increase in both familial homicide and murder in the area. One of the explanatory factors that is dealt with is the interaction between the faltering penal practice that then existed and the increase in certain types of homicide."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Historica
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBZ Sociology: death and dyingen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedomsen_US
dc.subject.othercontrol policy
dc.subject.othermanslaughter
dc.subject.otherhomicides
dc.subject.othercrimes
dc.subject.othersocial control
dc.subject.othermurder
dc.subject.otherCapital punishment
dc.subject.otherEastern Finland Province
dc.subject.otherIlomantsi
dc.subject.otherKarelia
dc.subject.otherLiperi
dc.subject.otherNorthern Karelia Province
dc.subject.otherPeasant
dc.subject.otherSavonia (historical province)
dc.titleThe Enemy Within: Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sfh.5
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isFundedByf2ba3da1-e4a8-41c9-9a78-bf7b19984191
oapen.relation.isbn9517466137;9789522228178
oapen.series.number5
oapen.pages217
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Capital punishment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment; Eastern Finland Province - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Finland_Province; Homicide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide; Ilomantsi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilomantsi; Karelia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia; Liperi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liperi; Northern Karelia Province - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Karelia_Province; Peasant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant; Savonia (historical province) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savonia_(historical_province)
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