More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Crime
In the lawless post-Civil War Ozarks, the vigilante Bald Knobbers took government’s place. When I was seven...
Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
First digital map of the murders recorded by the city’s Coroner in early 1300s shows Cheapside and...
Periodic outbursts of hostility incited numerous massacres of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Setting the Scene...