They give the historian important information about the mental lives of those indicted.
They are not a particularly accurate indication of the extent of actual criminal activity.
Their importance to historians of the nonelite has been generally overestimated.
Their problematic relationship to actual crime has not been acknowledged by most historians.
26. It can be inferred from the passage that a historian who wished to compare crime rates per thousand in a European city in one decade of the fifteenth century with crime rates in another decade of that century would probably be most aided by better information about which of the following?
The causes of unrest in the city during the two decades
The aggregate number of indictments in the city nearest to the city under investigation during the two decades
The number of people who lived in the city during each of the decades under investigation
The mental attitudes of criminals in the city, including their feelings about authority, during each of the decades under investigation
The possibilities for a member of the city s nonelite to become a member of the political and social elite during the two decades
27. The passage would be most likely to appear as part of
a book review summarizing the achievements of historians of the European aristocracy
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