"El hambre le inpulsara": The subsistence crisis and the boom in crimes against property in Galicia during the 1850s

被引:1
作者
Carballo Gende, Enrique [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, A Coruna, Spain
来源
HISPANIA-REVISTA ESPANOLA DE HISTORIA | 2020年 / 80卷 / 264期
关键词
crime; delinquency; social history; crime against property; subsistence crisis; Galicia;
D O I
10.3989/hispania.2020.006
中图分类号
K [历史、地理];
学科分类号
06 ;
摘要
In the decade of the 1850s, Galician courts witnessed a significant increase in crimes against property, both in absolute and relative terms, which coincided with a subsistence crisis and increase in food prices. There was a rise in thefts and pilferage committed by ordinary people, integrated in their communities and without criminal records, especially among the rural proletariat. They stole to subsist, despite the high risks that this kind of crime involved, and the intolerance shown by the judicial system towards this kind of survival crime. Most prosecutions were not initiated by police forces, but by ordinary people: theft victims, neighbours and, sometimes, perpetrators' relatives. In the countryside, particularly, the complainants informed local elites connected to local government. Rather than jail sentences, the crimes were punished by the imposition of the costs of the trial, which were so expensive that even defendants who were not condemned became utterly ruined.
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页码:169 / 199
页数:31
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