Figures and Tables
Figures
1 Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Il Gioco della Verità, etching, 1688, British Museum 25
2 Bologna and the Papal States around 1748 28
3 Development of the urban population in Bologna between 1371 and 1799 29
4 Bologna’s formal legal landscape, ca. 1530-1796 48
5 Actors in the judicial process in early modern Bologna, ca. 1530-1796 49
6 Types of processi across time, ca. 1655-1755 67
7 Bologna’s urban homicide rates based on the processi, 1600-1755 120
8 Stolen goods by gender of the offender, ca. 1655-1755 201
Tables
1 Female crimes shares in various Italian cities, averages per century 62
2 Categorisation of crimes 65
3 Reported crimes among Bologna’s processi, ca. 1655-1755 65
4 Outcomes of Bolognese processi for identified defendants, ca. 1655-1755 73
5 ‘Real sentences’ among urban processi by sex, ca. 1655-1755 76
6 Reported offences in urban denunciations, ca. 1655-1755 87
7 Information about marital and occupational status in the denunciations, ca. 1655-1755 95
8 Marital statuses of defendants and plaintiffs in the denunciations, ca. 1655-1755 97
9 Outcomes of denunciations for theft and violence in urban Bologna, ca. 1655-1755 99
10 Sentences for violent acts prescribed by the criminal bylaws of 1610 and 1756 112
11 Violent crimes among denunciations and processi, ca. 1655-1755 115
12 Sentences for violent crimes committed by men, ca. 1655-1755 115
13 Sentences for violent crimes committed by women, ca. 1655-1755 116
14 Mean homicide rates in European regions, 1350-1925 120
15 Relative importance of violence among denunciations and processi, ca. 1655-1755 134
16 Weapons used in reported physical violence, ca. 1655-1755 140
17 Social and economic relationships between offenders and their victims, ca. 1655-1755 154
18 Locations of violence before the Torrone, ca. 1655-1755 158
19 Sentences for common property offences in the criminal bylaws of 1756 179
20 The share of property offences among denunciations and processi, ca. 1655-1755 181
21 Types of urban property crimes before the Torrone, ca. 1655-1755 182
22 Registered sentences for property crimes among processi, ca. 1655-1755 184
23 Locations of theft in denunciations and processi where known, ca. 1655-1755 205
24 Locations of sale of stolen goods by identified defendants, ca. 1655-1755 210
25 Number of cases and defendants within the samples 227