Societal change and individual past in connection with crime: demographic perspectives on young people arrested in northern Sweden in the nineteenth century
ABSTRACT Little is known about the lives of criminal offenders prior to their incarceration in past time. Knowing the background of offenders, however, may explain why they broke the law. This article explores young offenders in the Sundsvall region of Sweden, 400 kilometres north of Stockholm, an a...
| Published in: | Continuity and Change |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2008
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416008006814 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0268416008006814 |