Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality.
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