Law and Domestic Homicide in Nineteenth-Century England

本研究研究了19世纪英国的配偶杀人案件及其在公众和法院的处理方式。它将建立第一个关于这类杀人案件及其法律处置的综合数据库。它将利用各种未被充分利用的资源，包括报纸报道和内政部的机密文件，来深入调查特别有启发性的案件。我们的目标是解释在那个世纪，家庭谋杀案件的增多。尤其值得关注的是，丈夫杀害妻子的案件会增加。有待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的频率，并降低了公众对这种行为的容忍度。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。本研究研究了19世纪英国的配偶杀人案件以及公众和法院对这一案件的处理。它将建立第一个关于这类杀人案件及其法律处置的综合数据库。它将利用各种未被充分利用的资源，包括报纸报道和内政部的机密文件，来深入调查特别有启发性的案件。我们的目标是解释在那个世纪，家庭谋杀案件的增多。尤其值得关注的是，丈夫杀害妻子的案件会增加。有待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的频率，并降低了公众对这种行为的容忍度。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. ***