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The Civilization of Crime - Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages (Paperback, New)
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The Civilization of Crime - Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages (Paperback, New)
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Along with most of the rest
       of Western
culture, has crime itself become more "civilized"?
       This book exposes
as myths the beliefs that society has become more violent
       than it has been
in the past and that violence is more likely to occur
       in cities than in
rural areas. Â Â Â Â Â The product of
years of study        by
scholars from North America and Europe, The Civilization of Crime
       shows that,
however violent some large cities may be now, both rural and
       urban communities
in Sweden, Holland, England, and other countries were
       far more violent
during the late Middle Ages than any cities are today.
     Contributors show that the
       dramatic change
is due, in part, to the fact that violence was often tolerated
       or even accepted
as a form of dispute settlement in village-dominated
       premodern
society. Interpersonal violence declined in the seventeenth
       and eighteenth
centuries, as dispute resolution was taken over by courts
       and other state
institutions and the church became increasingly intolerant
       of it.
     The book also challenges a
       number of other
historical-sociological theories, among them that contemporary
       organized crime
is new, and addresses continuing debate about the meaning
       and usefulness of
crime statistics. Â Â Â Â Â CONTRIBUTORS:
Esther Cohen, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Herman Diederiks, Florike Egmond, Eric A. Johnson, Michele Mancino,
Eric        H.
Monkkonen, Eva Österberg, James A. Sharpe, Pieter Spierenburg,
       Jan Sundin,
Barbara Weinberger Â
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