Law and Domestic Homicide in Nineteenth-Century England

维纳9616494这项研究研究了19世纪英国的配偶杀人案以及普通公众和法院对其的处理。它将建立第一个关于这类杀人案及其法律处置的全面数据库。它将使用各种未被充分利用的来源，包括报纸账户和内政部的机密文件，以深入探索特别具有启发性的案件。其目的是解释在那个世纪期间，国内凶杀案日益突出的原因。尤其令人担忧的是，丈夫杀害妻子的情况有所增加。将被检验的解释性假设侧重于国家社会发展的变化，这些变化增加了杀人案的频率，并降低了公众对此类行为的容忍度。使用定性和定量方法来评估这一时期暴力行为的变化，有望提供缺失的历史视角，为解释当代配偶杀人案件的增加提供信息。*这项研究研究了19世纪英国的配偶杀人案以及普通公众和法院对其的处理。它将建立第一个关于这类杀人案及其法律处置的全面数据库。它将使用各种未被充分利用的来源，包括报纸账户和内政部的机密文件，以深入探索特别具有启发性的案件。其目的是解释在那个世纪期间，国内凶杀案日益突出的原因。尤其令人担忧的是，丈夫杀害妻子的情况有所增加。将被检验的解释性假设侧重于国家社会发展的变化，这些变化增加了杀人案的频率，并降低了公众对此类行为的容忍度。使用定性和定量方法来评估这一时期暴力行为的变化，有望提供缺失的历史视角，为解释当代配偶杀人案件的增加提供信息。***

Wiener 9616494 This research studies spousal homicide in nineteenth-century England and its treatment by the general public and the courts. It will construct the first comprehensive database of such homicides and their legal disposition. It will use a variety of under-exploited sources including newspaper accounts and confidential Home Office files to explore particularly revealing cases in depth. The goal is to explain the increased prominence, during the course of that century, of domestic homicide. Of particular concern will be the increase in husbands killing wives. Explanatory hypotheses to be tested focus on changes in national social development that increased the frequency of homicide and a decrease in public tolerance for such behavior. The use of qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate changes in violence during that period promises to provide the missing historical perspective that can inform explanations of the contemporary increase in spousal homicide. *** This research studies spousal homicide in nineteenth-century England and its treatment by the general public and the courts. It will construct the first comprehensive database of such homicides and their legal disposition. It will use a variety of under-exploited sources including newspaper accounts and confidential Home Office files to explore particularly revealing cases in depth. The goal is to explain the increased prominence, during the course of that century, of domestic homicide. Of particular concern will be the increase in husbands killing wives. Explanatory hypotheses to be tested focus on changes in national social development that increased the frequency of homicide and a decrease in public tolerance for such behavior. The use of qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate changes in violence during that period promises to provide the missing historical perspective that can inform explanations of the contemporary increase in spousal homicide. ***