Criminology and Criminal Investigation

• Altick, Richard D. Deadly Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 164p. An account of 2 sensational crimes, a murder and an attempted murder, committed in 1861.
• Bailey, Brian J. Hangman: From Ketch to Pierrepoint, 300 Years of Execution. London: True Crime, 1993. 257pp. Originally published by W.H. Allen in 1989 as Hangmen of England: A History of Execution from Jack Ketch to Albert Pierrepoint.
• Bailey, William G. ed. The Encyclopedia of Police Science, 2nd ed., New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. 865pp.
• Boyle, Thomas. Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism. New York: Viking, 1989. 273p. This book is the result of the author's examination of several volumes of newspaper cliipings from Victorian newspapers regarding criminal trials.
• Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900, 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1996. 312p. This book discusses what the idea of crime meant to people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who was committing these crimes, and what steps were taken to prevent crime, and to deal with criminals.
• Holmes, Ronald M. Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989. 136pp.
• O'Maley, Thomas M. General Investigative Techniques. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1994. 255pp.
• Peterson, Marilyn B. Applications in Criminal Analysis: A Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. 312pp.
• U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Handbook of Forensic Science. Washington, D.C., 1994. 121pp.
• Wilson, Colin. Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection. London: HarperCollins, 1995. 523pp. Originally published by Equation in 1989.

See also Parapsychology for sources on the use of psychics in criminal investigation.