• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    that sure doesn’t look like it’s been going down for centuries. What about per capita?

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.

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      Per capita, IIRC it peaks in the 70’s. I’ve heard it proposed that it was down to leaded gasoline causing brain damage, and it’s such a weird blip I have to consider that. Obviously, from WWII backwards through depression and prohibition it was plenty nasty.