Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden

• Main Author: Miettinen, Riikka (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Social History.; Cultural History.; Crime and Society.

This book explores the judicial treatment of suicides in early modern Sweden, with a focus on the criminal investigation and selective treatment of suicides in the lower courts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Riikka Miettinen shows that reactions and attitudes towards suicides var...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Attitudes and Reactions to Suicides in Early Modern Sweden
• 3. Prosecuting Suspected Suicides: Processes and Obstacles
• 4. Investigation of Suicides in the Lower Courts
• 5. Selectivity by the Court: The Influence of Social Standing, Reputation and Piety
• 6. Conclusion.