The Encyclopedia of Crime - Hardcover

An updated survey of the history, methodology, and science of crime and criminal investigation provides behind-the-scenes, illustrated assessments of key events and crime types, sharing detailed studies of notorious serial killers, unsolved cases, and more.

Crime has been a subject of perennial fascination in our culture, but we rarely have the opportunity to survey the facts, history, and science of crime as distinct from the media coverage surrounding the major criminal cases that arrest the public's imagination. The Encyclopedia of Crime allows readers to survey the entire history and breadth of this phenomenon in an illustrated guide as compelling to read as it is useful as a reference.