The Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime, Violent Death, and Collective Violence

Roth, Randolph; Eckberg, Douglas Lee; Dayton, Cornelia Hughes; Wheeler, Kenneth H.; Watkinson, James; Haberman, Robb; Denham, John

doi:10.3200/hmts.41.2.81-98

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“…Created and sponsored by the Criminal Justice Research Centre at the Ohio State University, the Historical Violence Database (HVD) has progressed towards standardized analysis. The aim of the HVD is to serve as a repository of historical studies using standard worksheets and spreadsheets (Roth et al, 2008). It thus combines the goals of data sharing and standardization, with emphasis on the former rather than the latter.…”

Section: Prior Advances In Long-term Homicide Researchmentioning

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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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Section: Prior Advances In Long-term Homicide Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kivivuori

Rautelin

Netterstrøm

et al. 2022

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“…Potreba da se stvori baza podataka o istoriji nasilničkog kriminaliteta potiče iz 60tih i 70tih godina prošlog veka kada je broj ovih dela počeo snažno da raste u zapadnim zemljama. Pioniri u ovome su: Gurr (1969, 1979), Louise, Tilly (1975, Monkkonen (1975), Given (1977), Cockburn (1977), Hanawalt (1979) i Lane (1979) prema Roth et al 2008). 2 Istraživači su naišli na zanimljive podatke, kao da je srednjovekovna Engleska imala visoku stopu ubistava u poređenju sa 20. vekom, potom da su protesti u 19. veku u Engelskoj bili povezani sa političkom nestabilnošću.…”

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“…Nasilje u industrijskim gradovima u SAD opalo je u 19. veku. Sociolozi i istoričari bi posle ovih podataka trebalo da ispitaju predrasude u vezi sa kriminalitetom u premodernim i modernim društvima smatraju autori (Roth et al 2008).…”

Section: Kratak Osvrt Na Istorijske Aspekte Povezanosti Kriminaliteta Sa Upotrebom Alkoholaunclassified

Domestic violence and alcohol use: Security measures of compulsory treatment and a case study

Dragisic-Labas

2015

Sociologija

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Alcohol consumption is one among a number of factors in the etiology of violent crime which includes domestic violence. Domestic violence usually designates: violence between partners (spouses) and violence towards children and elderly parents. The aim of this article is to highlight the impact of alcohol abuse (intoxication) and alcohol dependence on domestic violence, but also to emphasize the multifactoriality of this relation, the economic damage that society suffers and the society?s very role with regard to the alcohol-crime relation. Presented are also different research projects and statistical data regarding the prevalence of this phenomena, together with three case studies that involved violent behavior towards the spouse, children and parents. The offenders received an order of compulsory treatment of alcoholism in a psychiatric institution and have been treated and observed for two years (psychotherapy and support clubs). The literature and the experiences of psychotherapeutic practice lead to a conclusion that prevention of alcohol abuse and alcoholism is indeed one of the factors that play a significant role in reducing the rate of violent crime, especially of domestic violence.

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“…b. The Historical Violence Database4 (Violence; Roth et al 2008) is a joint effort of a large international team of experts in (historical) criminal justice who have agreed to pool their research notes, case records, and images of homicides and other violent deaths. As such, their Web site functions as a repository of data from different countries.…”

Section: A New Wave Of Collaborative Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These collaboratories employ a Webbased interface that supports the users in their interaction with geographically distant colleagues within a virtual expert team, sharing the necessary instruments, resources, data, and knowledge (Stein, Keiper, Bezerra, Brocks, and Thiel 2004). For instance, the new database on historical violence (Roth, Eckberg, Dayton, Wheeler, Watkinson, Haberman et al 2008) is such an effort to pool together resources across the globe. The idea of "collaboratories" of peers cocreating historical data sets was proposed in socioeconomic history by Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2008).…”

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An Alternative Approach to Large Historical Databases

Dormans¹,

Kok²

2010

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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In their exploration of an alternative approach to large historical databases, the authors aim to bridge the gap between the anticipations regarding Web-based collaborative work and the prevailing practices and academic culture in social and economic history. Until now, the collaboratory model has been derived from examples in the natural sciences. Moreover, publications on collaboratories in the social sciences and humanities revolved primarily around the potential of this model and were rarely based on actual research practices. In this article, the authors report on practices, risks, and opportunities of collaboratories in the field of social and economic history. The collaboratory model is a feasible alternative for the creation of large historical databases, but the practical chal lenges of such an enterprise are greater than generally assumed. In the concluding section, the authors formulate a number of guidelines for scholars interested in setting up collaboratories.

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The Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime, Violent Death, and Collective Violence

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

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

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

Domestic violence and alcohol use: Security measures of compulsory treatment and a case study

An Alternative Approach to Large Historical Databases

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