Industrialization and Murder
Northern France, 1815-1904
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3515669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Parrella (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 627 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205239 |
| OpenAlex | W2313564081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Industrialization and Murder: Northern France, 1815-1904 Nineteenth-century social thinkers pioneered the insight that criminal behavior was amenable to forces of social change. According to one school of thought, the forward march of civilization would upgrade, so to speak, the criminal proclivities of the population. Violent crimes such as murder would decline in frequency; nonviolent crimes of stealth, presumably for mercenary gain, would increase. Social historians are still working with the basic idea that social change of significant magnitudeto the extent that it transforms interpersonal and social relationships-will have an impact on patterns of crime. Urban growth and industrial development may have weakened family and community bonds; or, on the contrary, may have improved the quality of family relations. In either case, one would expect to observe some corresponding change in the nature of violence and other forms of criminality.1 A basic concern with trends in aggregate crime rates over the long-term has dominated this research. Results of these studies have shattered the illusion of social harmony that is associated with traditional communities. Analysis of aggregate crime data has shown that rates of murder in preindustrial societies were sometimes extremely high compared to those in industrialized cities of the nineteenth century. Modern industrial societies exhibit high levels of crime in general (property damage and various
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2015 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |