Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
Crime
Explore the history and social meaning of crime, from ancient legal offenses to modern debates over violence and public order. These studies examine how societies define wrongdoing and decide who should be punished.
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...
A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip,...
Gloucestershire Constabulary at Northleach 1850s Pictures of Victorian policemen contain varied, conflicting and interacting strands of meaning....
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the ‘alt-right’ clash with police as they are forced out of...
Parchman Penal Farm. Female prisoners sewing, circa 1930. Flickr/Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Some rights reserved....
Research shows that in a city of 100,000, each new nonprofit community organization lead to a 1.2...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.15.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Deviance 1.1 – Introduction Merton’s...
Detail from a New York Times article August 11, 1886 – New York Times By Dr. Gregg Mangan / 04.11.2014...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pushing for stricter sentencing in criminal cases. / AP Photo/Frank Franklin II By...
07.11.2016 When it comes to weird tourist attractions, it’s hard to beat a stuffed black bear that died...
Jace Alexander attends the Screen Actors Guild Foundation Inaugural New York Golf Classic at Trump National Golf...
The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that evidence collected during an illegal stop can be used in court...
Through industry and ruination, a human body and a landscape compose a life tenuously holding together. Occulted...
THIS Week in Pastors Gone Wild: Two Arrested Trying to Have Sex with Kids in Human Trafficking Sting 
THIS Week in Pastors Gone Wild: Two Arrested Trying to Have Sex with Kids in Human Trafficking Sting
 Jason Kennedy, 46 (left) / Zubin Parakh, 32 (right) WBIR News reports the arrests of two...