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AUTHOR
Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm
Time cycles of homicide in the early modern Nordic area
An extensive body of criminological research has shown that criminaland violent behaviour manifests time patterns in terms of daily,weekly and annual cycles. This is consistent with criminologicalroutine activities theory. Can we generalize these patterns to historicalperiods? In this article, we draw on a recently created uniquedataset, covering the years 1608–1699 in three Nordic regions, toexplore time cycles of offending in the early modern period.Examining daily, weekly and annual cycles, we find that lethalviolence manifested strong time patterns in the early modernperiod. The role of public holidays was central especially in theperiod lasting from Christmas to Midsummer. Probing the …
Historical Homicide Monitor 2.0
This research brief is the manual of the Historical Homicide Monitor (HHM), providing background information, general coding instructions, and the detailed Historical Homicide Monitor 2.0 codebook. The Historical Homicide Monitor: • Is intended for use in long-duration homicide research, enabling comparisons of homicide patterns and rates over long time spans and across study regions. • Transforms information from qualitative-textual sources into a standardized and mostly quantitative format. • Is source neutral: any type of qualitative source can be made commensurate with other sources by using the instrument. • Is designed to be compatible with the European Homicide Monitor standard (Gran…