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• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Voltaire and Beccaria as Reformers of Criminal Law (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942), by Marcello T. Maestro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), by Thomas Andrew Green (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• Murder in America: A History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Roger Lane (PDF at Ohio State)

• Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Publishing, c2015), ed. by Karen Auerbach (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2022), ed. by Volker Benkert and Michael Mayer (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900, by R. J. Rummel (illustrated HTML at Hawaii)

• Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust (c2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Cover and maps: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 1: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 2: PDF at ushmm.org
• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges (HTML at hrw.org)

• Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Michelle Elizabeth Tusan (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• War and Genocide in South Sudan (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Clémence Pinaud (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Seven Curses of London, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Famous Crimes, Past and Present, ed. by Harold Furniss (partial serial archives)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)

• Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Southern Land Pirate (second edition; Jackson, MS: Pilot Pub. Co., 1874), by J. R. S. Pitts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland, Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi (c1909), by J. R. S. Pitts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville, by Mary Elizabeth Perry (PDF files at Libro)

• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Celebrated Crimes, by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retributive Justice (1882), by Francis Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)

• The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (New York: Brentano's, 1920), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of Real Life (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1787), by Charlotte Smith, contrib. by François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)
• The English Convict: A Statistical Study (1913), by Charles Goring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.org)

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