Özet:

This study aims to classify murder and injury cases in the Ayniyat Murder and Theft Book kept by Meclis-i Vâlâ and to evaluate the obtained data by the Ottoman Empire’s 1851 Criminal Code. This book, which cased to the period of March-July 1851 were recorded, formed the boundaries of the research. In the Penal Code of 1851, crimes of murder and injury were included in crimes against individual rights. Retaliation and diet were foreseen in shari’a law for this crime, but it was stated that could be punished managed with tâzir. It was aimed to examine murderer and victim profiles, identify the crime scenes, and reveal the crime tools. Since the boundaries of this study were determined as crimes, penal sanctions requiring execution were partially included. No data could be found on the practice of retaliation during the period. Some of the cases were resolved in the diet category with peace or amnesty, and most of them with tâzir. Within the scope of tâzir, punishments of shovel, shackles, fortress, or imprisonment were applied. It was determined that men were sentenced to hard labor and women were sentenced to prison. The cases occurred predominantly in rural areas. While rifles were used as murder tools, knives and stones were used as wounding tools.

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