HISTORIES OF SOCIAL CONTROL . . 7

I Rebelling Individuals . . 17 
"THE CHILD WHO STRIKES HIS OWN FATHER OR MOTHER SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH
Assault and Verbal Abuse of Parents in Swedish and Finnish Counties 1745-1754 . . 19
NAMING PRACTISES AS A SOCIAL CONTROL
The Continuity and Change of Morals in Local Peasant Communities (c. 1850-1960) . . 43
THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY FINNISH SERIAL KILLER . . 75 

II Community and Discipline . . 85 
TO REPORT OR NOT? TO PUNISH OR NOT?
Between Tightening Laws, Old Habits and Loyalty in Early Modern Bavaria . . 87
LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL EFFECTS OF FORBIDDEN SEXUALITY ON ENGAGEMENTS AND MARRIAGES IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CENTRAL FINLAND . . 107
IMPROVING THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 
Agents and Objects of Control in Early Modern Church Visitations . . 127
AN ARROGANT ARRENDATOR AND CONFLICT IN CHURCH RENOVATIONS IN THE MID-EICHTEENTH-CENTURY PARISH OF KOKEMAKI . . 157 

III On the Margins of the Society . . 183
WAR, SOLDIERS AND CRIME IN MODERN BRITAIN
Issues for Research . . 185
THE CONTROL OF VAGRANTS AND THE POOR IN FINLAND 1850-1885 . . 207 
SHE "TOOK HIM TO TEMPLE LANE, SUBSEQUENTLY HE MISSED HIS MONEY"
Prostitutes and Thieves in Dundee 1865-1925 . . 225

IV The Ultimate Power over Life and Death 257
THE POPE'S SWORD
Early Modern Capital Punishment, Homicide and Cultures of Suffering - Rome in the European Context . . 259
EXECUTIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY
Messages, Interpretations, and Reactions . . 299

AMNESTY OR INDIVIDUAL PARDONS? 
Presidential Pardon as a Measure to Control Those Punished as a Result of Disciplinary Proceedings in Finland in 1918 . . 323

ABSTRACT . . 351
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS . . 353 
INDEX . . 357