Violent crime trials at London’s Old Bailey

Lexical trends in transcripts of London trials between 1760 and 1913 reveal a gradual decline in Western society's tolerance of violence, according to a study. To examine the evolution of the Western bureaucratic legal system during the 18th and 19th centuries, Simon DeDeo and colleagues examined transcripts of trial proceedings at London’s Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey, between 1760 and 1913.