If one wants to describe Crime in simple terms, it is an unlawful action or omission done by a person against the laws in the constitution or regulations of a state. There are always repercussions for crimes committed – knowingly or without intent, meted by the state, government, community, or other authority. In the register of modern criminal law, the word ‘crime’ does not have any basic or simple definition. There is no globally adopted explanation of the word, as it cuts across diverse views. Nonetheless, in different climes and for specific instances and purposes, there are constitutional definitions that are available and accepted.
Some people may tend to ask, what types or levels of crime do we have? We may classify crimes into five main types, with numerous examples under each of these classes. The types of crimes may include personal crimes, inchoate crimes, property crimes, statutory crimes, and financial crimes. Crimes can be classified in other diverse ways. We need to understand that the law and regulations that make certain acts or neglected deeds to be regarded as a crime. In a state without law, a criminal cannot face any prosecution. For crimes to be checked in every state there is a need for law enforcement agencies, like the police. Most police officers or law enforcement agents have a degree in criminology.
Criminology is the social science that studies law enforcement and the system of criminal justice. A degree in this course of specialization is necessary for anyone considering a career in criminal justice. It helps to understand the mind and psychology of criminals.
In this collection, you will explore books and stories on the subject of behavior in notorious criminals and the ways they operate; you will find ancient books that give a vivid and in-depth explanation of the history and theories of criminals.
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
Psychology and Crime by Thomas Holmes 1912
Murder Most Mysterious by Hargrave Lee Adam 1900
Poison Mysteries in History by C.J.S. Thompson 1923
Poison romance and Poison Mysteries by C.J.S. Thompson 1904
A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley 1921
The Borden Murder Trial (Lizzie Borden), article in The Illustrated American 1893
The Greatest Detective Agency in the World (Pinkertons), article in The Strand 1905
The Greatest Criminal of the Past Century...Adam Worth, by By Pinkerton National Detective Agency 1903 (Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime.")
Remarkable Rogues - the careers of some notable Criminals of Europe and America by Charles Kingston 1921
The Holmes-Pitezel case - a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children by Frank P Geyer 1896 (H.H. Holmes was America's first serial killer)
American Criminal Trials, Volume 1 by Peleg Chandler 1844 (Anne Hutchinson. The Quakers. Salem witchcraft. Thomas Maule. John Peter Zenger. New York Negro Plot etc)
American Criminal Trials, Volume 2 by Peleg Chandler 1844
Why Some Men Kill (Murder mysteries revealed) by George A Thacher 1919
The truth about the Frank case by CP Connolly 1915 (famous murder mystery in the deep South)
Famous Mysteries by John Watkins 1919 (Lizzie Borden)
Brigham's Destroying Angel - being the life, confession, and startling disclosures of the notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite (Mormon) chief of Utah 1904
The History of Pirates, free-booters or buccaneers of America by JW Archenholz 1907
Life, trial and execution of Edward H. Ruloff: the perpetrator of eight Murder & Other Crimes 1871
Jesse James and his band of Notorious Outlaws by W Gordon 1891
A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Henry Irving 1918
History of Billy the Kid by Charles Siringo 1920
Train and bank robbers of the West, by A Appler 1889
The Crime of the Century - The assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M Hunt 1889
Celebrated Criminal Cases of America by Thomas Duke 1910
Woman and Crime by Hargrave Lee Adam 1912 (Poisoners, Baby Farmers, Financial Defrauders etc)
The Female Offender by Cesare Lombroso 1904
Chronicles of Crime and Criminals - Full and authentic account of the murder by Henry Wainwright of his mistress, Harriet Lane, and an extended account of the Whitechapel murders by the infamous Jack the Ripper 1895
Madame de Brinvilliers and her Times by Hugh Stokes 1911 (Wholesale Poisoner)
Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy by Ingersoll 1888
Science and the Criminal by CA Mitchell 1911
Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by ME Billings 1914
Beasts in Cassocks - the Crimes of the Heads of the Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church in America by John F Dudikoff
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 1 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 2 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 3 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 4 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 5 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 6 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 7 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 8 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 9 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 10 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, Volume 11 by Arthur Griffiths 1900
The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave LeBon (One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume for students of history, sociology, law and psychology. Featured liberally in Ann Coulter's new book _Demonic_)
Professional criminals of America by Thomas Byrnes 1886 (Methods of Professional Criminals of America, Bank Burglars, Bank Sneak Thieves, Forgers, Hotel and Boarding-House Thieves, Sneak and House Thieves, Store and Safe Burglars, Shoplifters and Pickpockets, Confidence and Banco Men, Recelvers of Stolen Goods, Tricks of Sawdust Men, Frauds in Horse Sales, Why Thieves are Photographed, Descriptions and Records of Professional Criminals, Several Notable Forgers, International Forgers - Secret History of the Wilkes, Hamilton, Becker, Engles Gang of Forgers - Their Chief's Confession, Other Noted Criminals, Bank Robberies, Miscellaneous Robberies, Mysterious Murders, Executions in the Tombs Prison)
Professional thieves and the detective by Allen Pinkerton 1883
Studies of French criminals of the Nineteenth Century by HB Irving 1901
The Monks of Monk Hall by George Lippard 1876 (Murder - Seduction- Corruption- Insanity- Secret societies- Graverobbing- Loosely based on the real-life trial of Singleton Mercer, who murdered Mahlon Heberton. Lippard's novel is classic 19th-century sensational fiction.)
Unfinished Man - a Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath or Human Degenerate by Albert Wilson 1910
Lives of Twelve Bad Men - original studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Thomas Seccombe 1894
Mysteries of Police and Crime, Volume 1 by Arthur Griffiths 1899
Mysteries of Police and Crime, Volume 2 by Arthur Griffiths 1899
Trial of Franz Muller 1911 (Franz Müller (31 October 1840 - 14 November 1864), was a German tailor who hanged for the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first killing on a British train)
Famous Irish trials by M.M. Bodkin 1918
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck 1916
Memories of Famous Trials by Evelyn Henry Villebois Burnaby 1907
Famous Trials of the Century by James Beresford Atlay 1899
Famous Kentucky Tragedies and Trials by Lewis F Johnson 1916
Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley 1905
The Chronicles of Newgate (Chronicles of Crime), Volume 1 by Arthur Griffith 1884
The Chronicles of Newgate (Chronicles of Crime), Volume 2 by Arthur Griffith 1884
Clever Criminals by John Lang 1871
Survivors' tales of famous crimes by Walter Wood 1916
Celebrated Crimes, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas 1896
Celebrated Crimes, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas 1896
Celebrated Crimes, Volume 3 by Alexandre Dumas 1896
Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence by S.M. Phillipps 1879
Warped in the Making - Crimes of Love and Hate by Harry Ashton-Wolfe 1920
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri 1900
History of a crime by Victor Hugo 1920
A History of Crime in England, Volume 1 by Luke Owen Pike 1873
A History of Crime in England, Volume 2 by Luke Owen Pike 1873
London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes 1912
Criminology, crimes and criminals by JW Slayton 1910
Criminology by Maurice Parmelee 1918
Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate by J.R.S. Pitts 1874
From Cain to Capone by John McConaughy
Frauds of America - Beware of shams, how they are worked and how to foil them - the tricks and methods of all kinds of frauds and swindlers, from the petty sneak-theif to the cleverest schemes of the expert bank robber, fully exposed for the protection of the American public by EG Redmond 1902
Last studies in Criminology by Henry Irving 1921
List of Works Relating to Criminology 1911
Notes on duels and duelling by L Sabine 1855
The History of Duelling, Volume 1 by JG Millingen 1841
The History of Duelling, Volume 2 by JG Millingen 1841
Lives and Exploits of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers by Charles Whitehead 1883
Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers by Charles Whitehead 1847
The Story of Crime from the cradle to the grave by HL Adam 1907
Ames on Forgery: Its Detection and Illustration by Daniel T. Ames 1900
A Famous Forgery - being the story of "the unfortunate" Doctor Dodd by Percy H Fitzgerald 1865
The Gentle Art of Faking - a history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day by Riccardo Nobili 1922
Forging his chains. The Autobiography of George Bidwell with the story of his connection with the so-called 1,000,000 forgery on the Bank of England, and a complete account of his arrest, trial, conviction, and confinement for fourteen years in English prisons. With numerous illustrations 1888
The Outlaws - a story of the building of the West by Le Roy Armstrong 1902
The Border Bandits - an authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and their bands of highwaymen compiled from reliable sources only and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters by James W Buel 1881
The Cash Family of South Carolina - a Truthful Account of the many crimes committed by the Carolina cavalier outlaws by SW Henley 1884
Stories from Scotland Yard by Maurice Moser 1890
Cleek of Scotland Yard (Detective Stories) by Thomas W. Hanshew 1914
The Brighton Murder: An Authentic & Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway by Charles Hindley 1875
Life, Crimes, and Confession of Bridget Durgan, The Fiendish Murderess of Mrs. Coriel Whom she Butchered 1867
Fall River - an authentic narrative by CR Williams 1834 (An account of the circumstances leading to the trial of the Rev. Ephraim Avery for the murder of Sarah Cornell in Fall River in December 1832)
Life and confession of Stephen Dee Richards, the murderer of nine persons 1879
The most extraordinary trial of William Palmer 1857 (William Palmer (6 August 1824 – 14 June 1856), also known as the Rugeley Poisoner or the Prince of Poisoners, was an English doctor found guilty of murder in one of the most notorious cases of the 19th century. He was convicted for the 1855 murder of his friend John Cook, and was executed in public by hanging the following year. He had poisoned Cook with strychnine, and was suspected of poisoning several other people including his brother and his mother-in-law, as well as four of his children who died of "convulsions" before their first birthdays. Palmer made large sums of money from the deaths of his wife and brother after collecting on life insurance, and by defrauding his wealthy mother out of thousands of pounds, all of which he lost through gambling on horses.)
The Greatest Burglary on Record: Robbery of the Northampton National Bank 1876
The Original Sherlock Holmes, article in Colliers magazine 1904 (about Dr Joseph Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle's mentor)
A Day with Dr Conan Doyle, article in the Strand Magazine 1892
Murder as a Fine Art by Thomas de Quincy
Criminal Investigation, a practical handbook for magistrates, police officers and lawyers by Hans Gross 1906 (Hans Gross was an Austrian criminal jurist and an examining magistrate. He is believed to be the creator of the field of criminalistics and is to this day seen as the father of Criminal Investigation)
Criminal Psychology by Hans Gross 1911
Modern Theories of Criminality by Constancio Bernaldo de Quiros 1911
Anatomical Studies upon brains of criminals by Moriz Benedikt 1881
The Criminal - a Scientific Study by August Drahms 1900
The Criminal by Havelock Ellis 1890
The Psychology of the Criminal by M.H. Smith 1922
The Criminal Mind by Maurice de Fleury 1900
On the Witness Stand - essays on psychology and crime by Munsterberg Hugo 1909 (Illusions. The memory of the witness. The detection of crime. The traces of emotions. Untrue confessions. Suggestions in court. Hypnotism and crime)
The Origin of Finger-printing by William James Herschel 1916
The Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn Wells 1913
Finger Prints by Francis Galton 1892
Famous Detective Stories by Joseph Walker McSpadden 1920
The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England by George Jacob Holyoake 1850
History of Trial by Jury by William Forsyth 1850
A brief on the modes of proving the facts most frequently in issue or collaterally in question on the trial of civil or criminal cases by Austin Abbott 1912
Celebrated Trials by Henry Lauren Clinton - 1897
The Criminal Imbecile - an analysis of three remarkable murder cases by Henry H Goddard 1915