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Squalid posted:I tend to lean towards economic explanations for these kinds of social changes, but there's been several historical studies on this phenomena that suggest it may be driven in large part by culture change. That is to say homicide has become less socially acceptable over time. I can't remember the title of the work I read parts of but it was on the decline in homicide in Dutch/Flemish cities from the Renaissance to the early modern, and focused on the decline in the culture of knife duels. Probably a combo of homicide becoming less acceptable, the state's capability to investigate homicides and enforce penalties for them increase, medical advances lead to assaults that would've been fatal becoming survivable, all of which combine to make homicides less common. Once it's less common, it becomes further less acceptable, the state's ability to investigate homicides increases, yadda yadda. There's several positive feedback loops in the equation.
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