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?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can see your huge nose from here.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >statistics
    >from the medieval period

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      trust the science goy, don't ask questions

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      https://i.imgur.com/U2hdUTJ.jpg

      Why were medieval people so insanely violent and criminal? Weren’t they more religious back then?

      >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

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      trust the science goy, don't ask questions

      Motherfrickers you analyze historical documentation on the subject and do the math. Don’t visit a history board with your D student brains

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >that 90s uptick

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Depends what I'm trying to argue

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >weren't they more religious

    Therein lies the problem.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >1 out of every thousand people were murdered
    Holy goddamn frick lmao what a hellhole

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Every year!!

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pure socioeconomic factors

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    IQ and eugenics

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Religion might provide social cohesion but it doesn't stop crime and violence.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Religion was a mere excuse for atrocities and war. People will always commit violence and atrocities, and the blame lies in human nature.

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