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Figure 8: Place of homicide against males, by period (%) 76 .
It is quite evident that aspects of social and economic history are reflected in the places where
homicides take place. The increasing share of private places as homicide sites probably reflect the
generally improved housing conditions, and, ultimately, the rise of the Finnish welfare state. Even the
marginalised males quarrelling in their drinking groups are more likely to include at least one person
who has an apartment and can consequently invite his friends and acquaintances to his place.
Figure 9: The percentage of male victims killed in streets/highways, blue
collar workplaces, and restaurants (see note 3).
Blue collar workplaces such as factories, construction sites and lumbering areas in the forests have
vanished as places of homicide (Fig. 9). This is likely to reflect the decreasing number of people
working in such sites. Furthermore, modern blue collar work requires higher qualifications, for
example the few remaining lumberjacks need to master complicated forest harvester machines.
Finally, blue collar work no longer takes place in sites where the men have to live together in
76 Absolute numbers of male victims with known places of death in the four periods were: 225, 286, 374 and
212.
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