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MacRaild, Donald M.

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“…In 1861 for example the four counties of the northern division contained only 150 Irish-born residents between them, whilst Renfrew and Lanarkshire contained 118,000. 69 The impact of this concentration of Irish migrants in urban areas on patterns of recorded homicide is easily underestimated. Contemporary commentators both north and south of the border frequently made a link between the Irish and lethal violence, and the limited research so far undertaken suggests that the Irish were indeed greatly over-represented amongst those accused of homicide.…”

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Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

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2011

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By showing that Scottish homicide rates more than doubled in the first sixty years of the nineteenth century, this article challenges the assumption on which much current work on pre-1950 homicide rates is based -that this was a story of uninterrupted decline. Using a detailed study of the geography of Scottish homicide, it argues that, while many historians have linked urbanization to lower homicide rates, in Scotland in this period the opposite was the case. The article then explores some of the key factors that lay behind these temporal and spatial variations in Scottish homicide rates such as regional differences in the proportion of lethally violent acts that were prosecuted, the effects of widening definitions of culpable homicide, and the impact on actual levels of lethal violence made by factors such as urban living conditions, migration patterns, and urban/ rural differences in the age profile of the general population.

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Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

King

2011

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Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

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