Biology and the Deep History of Homicide

Roth, Randolph

doi:10.1093/bjc/azr029

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“…For example, Cullen's (1994) social support theory explores how others' willingness to provide social support can reduce crime by individuals and, on a more macro level, across social contexts. Both Pinker's (2011) and Roth's (2011Roth's ( , 2012 historical analyses of violence across different periods and societies emphasize the importance of community ties, cooperation, and altruism as key elements that enhance security and decrease interpersonal and political violence. According to Pinker (2011) several historical contingencies have promoted the emergence and proliferation of unselfish human motives, which has led to an overall decline in violence.…”

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Social Concern and Delinquency: An Empirical Assessment of a Novel Theory

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Social Concern and Delinquency: An Empirical Assessment of a Novel Theory

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“…In other societies lethal interpersonal violence accounts for less than 0.05% of all deaths, meaning that it barely affects the overall life expectancy of a population. This suggests that the extent to which humans primarily display co-operative and caring or antagonistic and violent behaviour depends on social circumstances (Roth, 2011). This paper examines homicide, the best documented manifestation of violence.…”

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What causes Large-Scale Variation in Homicide Rates?

Eisner¹

2012

Violence Among Our Close Relatives

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“…Meta-theoretically, we build on recent violence research underscoring the existence of human universals (Daly & Wilson, 1988;Eisner, 2011;Lawrence, 2016, pp. 23-24;Roth, 2011;Sznycer & Patrick, 2020). From the point of view of long-duration analysis, this involves both the topic (homicide) and the means of knowing about it (human memory creating the data sources).…”

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Nordic Homicide in Deep Time: Lethal Violence in the Early Modern Era and Present Times

Kivivuori

Rautelin

Netterstrøm

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Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. Similar and continuous societal structures, cultural patterns, and legal cultures allow for long-term and comparative homicide research in the Nordic context. Reflecting human universals and stable motives, such as revenge, jealousy, honour, and material conflicts, homicide as a form of human behaviour enables long-duration comparison. By describing the rates and patterns of homicide during these two eras, the authors unveil continuity and change in human violence. Where and when did homicide typically take place? Who were the victims and the offenders, what where the circumstances of their conflicts? Was intimate partner homicide more prevalent in the early modern period than in present times? How long a time elapsed from violence to death? Were homicides often committed in the context of other crime? The book offers answers to these questions among others, comparing regions and eras. We gain a unique and empirically grounded view on how state consolidation and changing routines of everyday life transformed the patterns of criminal homicide in Nordic society. The path to pacification was anything but easy, punctuated by shorter crises of social turmoil, and high violence. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of homicide variation across space and over time. In developing a new approach for extending homicide research into the deep past, the authors have created the Historical Homicide Monitor. The new instrument combines wide explanatory scope, measurement standardization, and articulated theory expression. By retroactively expanding research data to the pre-statistical era, the method enables long-duration comparison of different periods and areas. Based on in-depth source critique, the approach captures patterns of criminal behaviour, beyond the control activity of the courts. The authors foresee the application of their approach in even remoter periods. Nordic Homicide in Deep Time helps the reader to understand modern homicide by revealing the historical continuities and changes in lethal violence. The book is written for professionals, university students and anyone interested in the history of human behaviour.

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Biology and the Deep History of Homicide

Cited by 30 publications

References 54 publications

Social Concern and Delinquency: An Empirical Assessment of a Novel Theory

Social Concern and Delinquency: An Empirical Assessment of a Novel Theory

What causes Large-Scale Variation in Homicide Rates?

Nordic Homicide in Deep Time: Lethal Violence in the Early Modern Era and Present Times

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