Mirkka Lappalainen (ed.), Five Centuries of Violence in Finland and the Baltic Area

This book is a kind of interim report on a project which is still going on and for which Heikki Ylikangas has obtained considerable funding. More publications are to appear, hopefully also in English translation. This one consists of three separate essays, the first by Ylikangas himself. He links u...

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1. Verfasser: Spierenburg, Pieter
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2009
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:This book is a kind of interim report on a project which is still going on and for which Heikki Ylikangas has obtained considerable funding. More publications are to appear, hopefully also in English translation. This one consists of three separate essays, the first by Ylikangas himself. He links up with the international discussion on the declining trend of violence. According to him, the level of violent crime in Finland dropped already in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries...