Criminology

Factors such as infanticide’s secretive nature, flawed legislation that acquitted the guilty and incomplete record-keeping made it tempting for families…

Victorian convicted murderers were the twofold awareness of daily newspapers in criminal justice. Indeed, it was to be characteristic throughout…

Serial Murderer historical study reveals other criminals who lived in much earlier times and committed atrocities of such magnitude that…

Fear, honour and shame in horror stories and legends about sausage factories and a woman who killed children at her…

The most gripping and recurrent visualizations of the “monstrous” in the media and film lay the most repressed fantasies and…

Despite technological and societal advances, crimes of an inexplicably violent nature still permeate contemporary civilizations throughout the world.

Pirates have probably been around for as long as people have travelled and traded on the seas, with their proto-anarchist…

Crime in verse connects innovations in Victorian poetry to developments in the discourse of crime interrelated and often contradictory concepts.

Serial murder metropolitan popular culture necessitated dramatic shifts in the tale of serial killing and narratives of violence in the…

The 1752 Murder Act brought two post-execution punishments — dissection and hanging in chains — as an integral part of…

Rather than being established as the demonic other that must be exorcised, the serial killer is identified as society’s “monstrous…

Because of the lack of concrete information, competing theories abound, and within the community of serial murderer aficionados, there is…