Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden

by Riikka Miettinen

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 varied considerably despite harsh condemnation by officials. The indictment, investigation, and classification of suspected suicides and the mental state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030118444
• ISBN13: 9783030118440
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"