Abstract
AbstractLike with any research, at the end of the day, or in our case, at the end of the book, one contemplates about “What did we find out?” This chapter explores that question with regard to the BHS and its key findings as well as current (lethal) violence research in more general terms. After a critical assessment of whether and how the BHS’s key findings provide answers to the research questions we put before us, the challenge of capturing and measuring the physics of (lethal) violence shall be briefly discussed. The chapter at hand thus includes a selection of the study’s key findings on the two different lines of research we had in mind when designing the BHS: the normative construction and the empirical realities of (lethal) violence in the Balkans. This is closely related to a few concluding remarks about the definability, measurability, severity, and “homicidality” of violence. The aim is to highlight the underutilized potential of criminological violence research in the context of criminology’s transdisciplinary nature. The chances and limitations of future (lethal) violence research and its prevention, at least in my opinion, first and foremost depend on our willingness and ability to fundamentally innovate the scientific way in which we think about and look at violence.
Highlights
Like with any research, at the end of the day, or in our case, at the end of the book, one contemplates about “What did we find out?” This chapter explores that question with regard to the BHS and its key findings as well as current violence research in more general terms
The chapter at hand includes a selection of the study’s key findings on the two different lines of research we had in mind when designing the BHS: the normative construction and the empirical realities of violence in the Balkans. This is closely related to a few concluding remarks about the definability, measurability, severity, and “homicidality” of violence
We might rather want to approach the matter in terms of gradations or scales of a violent incident’s “homicidality,” as will be further discussed in the final section of this chapter (Sect. 6.4)
Summary
With the BHS and its first findings, as presented in this book, a considerable gap in European homicide research has been filled, while shedding first light on the phenomenology of (lethal) violence in this part of Europe. The BHS’s second line of inquiry, was successfully addressed and with the presented first findings provides for an original empirical glimpse into the realities of (lethal) violence in the Balkans. Deviating from the initial cooperation agreements covering core countries of the Balkans, the study managed to capture the phenomenology of (lethal) violence in six Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Romania, and Slovenia. This provides a strong basis for starting to unravel the Balkan-violence-paradox, while enabling critical questioning of common violent Balkan images and stereotypes. With the BHS itself we did not even attempt to take this path, in the process of conducting the study, due to conducting the study and analyzing its data, this highly intriguing task emerged and is currently being explored by the Violence Research Lab
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