Familial, femicidal, and intimate partner homicide in early modern Nordic societies
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https://doi.org/10.51815/fjsr.176500Keywords:
Familial homicide, intimate partner homicide, femicide, Historical Homicide Monitor, early modern period, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, historical criminologyAbstract
Familial homicide (FH), intimate partner homicide (IPH), and femicide are serious problems in the modern world. Additional information on these phenomena can be gained from historical long-duration homicide research. This study draws on the Historical Homicide Monitor Database to discuss the relative salience of FH, IPH, and femicide in the general homicide patterns of early modern and contemporary periods. The Historical Homicide Monitor (HHM) is a standardized homicide analysis approach designed for long-duration comparisons (Kivivuori et al., 2022). The current data are derived from three regional study sites in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, comparing homicide patterns in these research sites in the early modern period (1609–1699) and contrasting the patterns with the contemporary era (2007–2016). Two findings are discussed: the relative rarity of FH, IPH, and femicide in early modern Nordic homicide data, and the outlier position of Finland in this regard. The aim is to showcase the benefits of standardized homicide instruments in the further development of morphological analysis of violence transitions.
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