Laws, Courts and Communities in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, ca. 1750-1800
Laws, Courts and Communities in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, ca. 1750-1800
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宾夕法尼亚偏远地区的法律、法院和社区，约。
DOI：
10.1163/18770703-00601004
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发表时间：
2016
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0.4
通讯作者：
Ward M
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作者：
Ward M
历史学家通常将宾夕法尼亚州的偏远地区描绘成一个无法无天、暴力的地区。许多人将这种暴力程度归因于1720年后苏格兰爱尔兰移民涌入该省。本文考察了18世纪宾夕法尼亚州的几个县，证明早期的学者一直高估了边境地区的犯罪率。此外，法庭记录显示，与其他族裔相比，苏格兰裔爱尔兰人并不更有可能被起诉或定罪。总体而言，边境定居者接受了法律制度，尽管他们坚持以符合当地情况的方式适用法律制度。
Historians have commonly portrayed the Pennsylvania backcountry as a lawless, violent region. Many have attributed this these levels of violence to the influx of Scots Irish migrants to the province after the 1720. Examining several eighteenth-century Pennsylvania counties, this article demonstrates that earlier scholars have consistently overestimated levels of crime on the frontier. Moreover, court records shows that Scots-Irish individuals were no more likely to be prosecuted or convicted of crime than other ethnic groups. Overall, frontier settlers embraced the legal system, even as they insisted it be applied in ways that accorded with local conditions.