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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Anu Koskivirta. The Enemy Within: Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748–1808. (Studia Fennica; Historica, number 5.) Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. 2003. Pp. 217.
There were 198 violent deaths in two eastern provinces of Finland during the late eighteenth century. Anu Koskivirta's book is a discussion of this violence. The author analyzes the extent and type of violence and the way it changed during the time period. She is particularly interested in the degree to which one can consider this violence as an element of control, either formal control or lack thereof from the state, or informal control from within the local community.	1
The book is drawn from Koskivirta's dissertation and thus contains an extensive literature review. She relies heavily on Norbert Elias's classic work, The History of Manners: The Civilizing Process (1939), for her explanations of changes in the nature and control of homicide. She subscribes to the theory that homicide was used as a mechanism for local control in a culture where central or state control was weak. Thus violent deaths continued longer in the peripheral border provinces, farthest from the central authority in Stockholm. In these distant provinces, perpetrators believed they could get away with murder, because they so often did, and so were more willing to take the risk. Although Koskivirta is well aware that murder is not always premeditated and can sometimes be the result of unintended violent passion, she writes as though murderers are usually rational and engage in some level of cost-benefit analysis before they act.	. . .

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