Why were medieval people so insanely violent and criminal? Weren’t they more religious back then?
Why were medieval people so insanely violent and criminal? Werent they more religious back then?
Why were medieval people so insanely violent and criminal? Weren’t they more religious back then?
I can see your huge nose from here.
>statistics
>from the medieval period
trust the science goy, don't ask questions
Obviously we don't have records from every crime committed, but we have enough for a reliable sample size. England has a lot of extent medieval coroner records.
>Weren’t they more religious back then?
They were more religious but also more low IQ and there were more violent, aggressive types. But beginning in the late middle ages the state got really serious about crime and started giving the death penalty to just about any crime including minor theft, and that resulted in a weeding out of violent and criminal people from the gene pool. This is argued by Frost et al.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/147470491501300114
Lol their solid evidence is very scanty. It's impossible to find the full text of their citations for the exact number of executions, but I can see from French sources that exact figures for execution are rare and that there was a gap between the legal theory and the application of capital punishment.
It also goes without saying that clearance rates were effectively zero in some places.
Motherfuckers you analyze historical documentation on the subject and do the math. Don’t visit a history board with your D student brains
>that 90s uptick
I've seen exactly opposing claims that the middle ages were relatively crime free, and that makes sense to me given that it would be harder to be anonymous in smaller populations and that justice was rather permanent and swift. Which is it?
Depends what I'm trying to argue
>weren't they more religious
Therein lies the problem.
>1 out of every thousand people were murdered
Holy goddamn fuck lmao what a hellhole
Every year!!
was all the wars tbh. Created a class of men who were accustomed to using violence to get what they wanted, and when the state didn't have enemies to fight in a licensed way it was easy to transition to banditry.
Pure socioeconomic factors
They weren’t criminal as much as they were tribal and clannish.
They were a Bronze Age people and only after the church began removing violent individuals did their population undergo a founder effect where less violent types began to replace the violent ones.
Because most cities had no police forces, at best you had private watchmen stationed to protect valuable businesses. Homicide was so high because people had to kill eachother in self defense constantly as there was little infrastructure in place to arrest violent criminals, especially in more crowded cities where people got away with petty crimes near constantly. It wasn't "lawless" or anarchy or any of that, but people were just more encouraged to self-police back then. Crime started dropping by the 18th and 19th centuries as the first full realized civic police forces were deployed like the Scotland Yard and New York police.
IQ and eugenics
Religion might provide social cohesion but it doesn't stop crime and violence.
Religion was a mere excuse for atrocities and war. People will always commit violence and atrocities, and the blame lies in human nature.