Law & Criminology

Codes and courts, crimes and punishments — from Hammurabi’s stela and the medieval ordeal to the prison reformers, the police and the men who wrote the modern law.

• The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Criminal Psychology Hans Gross
• A Plea for the Criminal J. L. A. Kayll
• The Institutes of Justinian Unknown
• Psychopathia Sexualis R. von Krafft-Ebing
• The Oldest Code of Laws in the World Hammurabi
• The Path of the Law Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation Unknown
• Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills Virgil M. Harris
• Jurisprudence John W. Salmond
• The Origin of Finger-Printing William J. Herschel
• The Criminal Prosecution of Animals E. P. Evans
• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals Alfred Marks
• Text-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology R. J. M. Buchanan
• The Visigothic Code Unknown
• Copyright: Its History and Its Law R. R. Bowker
• You Can’t Win Jack Black
• The Art of Cross-Examination Francis L. Wellman
• The Criminal Havelock Ellis
• Six Years in the Prisons of England Unknown
• Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Frederic Seebohm
• The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius
• Crimes and Punishments James Anson Farrer
• Penal Methods of the Middle Ages George Ives
• Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters C. H. W. Johns
• The Modern Ku Klux Klan Henry P. Fry
• Bygone Punishments William Andrews
• Race Distinctions in American Law Gilbert Thomas Stephenson
• Poine: A Study in Ancient Greek Blood-Vengeance H. J. Treston
• Suicide: Its History, Literature and Jurisprudence W. Wynn Westcott
• Tradition: Mythology and the Law of Nations Lord Arundell of Wardour
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law Roscoe Pound
• Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex Anonymous
• Superstition and Force Henry Charles Lea
• A History of Police in England W. L. Melville Lee
• Powers of the President During Crises J. Malcolm Smith and Cornelius P. Cotter
• John Marshall and the Constitution Edward S. Corwin
• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut John M. Taylor
• The Twelve Tables Unknown
• Legal Antiquities Edward J. White
• The Story of the Outlaw Emerson Hough
• A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright E. J. MacGillivray
• Non-Criminal Prisons Arthur Griffiths
• Commercial Law Samuel Williston
• Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World Hyacinthe Ringrose
• The Postal Power of Congress Lindsay Rogers
• The Positive School of Criminology Enrico Ferri
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Patrick Colquhoun
• Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate Frank Thorpe Porter
• Human Leopards Kenneth J. Beatty
• Disputed Handwriting Jerome B. Lavay
• Atrocious Judges John Campbell
• Within Prison Walls Thomas Mott Osborne
• Sharps and Flats J. N. Maskelyne
• Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls Unknown
• The Law of the Sea Dalzell & Brinton Canfield
• The Bombay City Police S. M. Edwardes
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens Georg Jellinek
• Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling William & Mary Healy
• The New German Constitution René Brunet
• The Inns of Court Cecil Headlam
• Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold Horace Bleackley
• Law and Laughter Morton & Malloch
• Lynch-Law James Elbert Cutler
• The Diary of a Resurrectionist James Blake Bailey
• The Law and Medical Men R. Vashon Rogers
• Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England Francis Stoughton Sullivan
• Modern French Prisons Arthur Griffiths
• Trial of Duncan Terig and Alexander Bane Macdonald Walter Scott
• Scotland Yard George Dilnot
• Trial of Deacon Brodie Unknown
• Putnam’s Handy Law Book for the Layman Albert Sidney Bolles
• The Seven Lamps of Advocacy Edward Abbott Parry
• The Geneva Protocol David Hunter Miller
• The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne
• The Trial of Theodore Parker Theodore Parker
• The Essentials of American Constitutional Law Francis Newton Thorpe
• Trial of William Palmer Unknown
• The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law Charles M. Scanlan
• Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
• Famous Assassinations of History Francis Johnson
• Crime and Its Causes William Douglas Morrison
• The Right to Privacy Warren & Brandeis
• The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins Baron Brampton Henry Hawkins
• An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner
• Known to the Police Thomas Holmes
• Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger Albert Bigelow Paine
• Convict Life at the Minnesota State Prison W. C. Heilbron
• Popular Law-making Frederic Jesup Stimson
• Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology W. G. Aitchison Robertson
• German and Austrian Prisons Arthur Griffiths
• The History of Burke and Hare George MacGregor
• Development of Muslim Theology and Jurisprudence Duncan Black MacDonald
• The New York Tombs Inside and Out John Josiah Munro
• Tramping with Tramps Josiah Flynt
• The Legal Position of the Clergy Philip Vernon Smith
• After Prison — What? Maud Ballington Booth
• Moral Principles and Medical Practice Charles Coppens
• Hanging in Chains Albert Hartshorne
• Frederick William Maitland H. A. L. Fisher
• What Prohibition Has Done to America Fabian Franklin
• Hindu Law and Judicature Yajnavalkya
• The Law and the Poor Edward Abbott Parry
• Oriental Prisons Arthur Griffiths
• Crime: Its Cause and Treatment Clarence Darrow
• The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin
• Magna Carta and Other Addresses William D. Guthrie
• Psychology and Crime Thomas Holmes
• A Translation of Glanville Ranulf de Glanville
• Courts and Criminals Arthur Train
• The Hand-book of the Law of Legacies Anonymous
• Prize Money Quincy Wright
• Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Charles Clinton Nourse
• Russian Prisons Arthur Griffiths
• The Gun Alley Tragedy T. C. Brennan
• The Freedom of the Seas Hugo Grotius
• The Vigilantes of Montana Thomas J. Dimsdale
• Celebrated Claimants Anonymous
• The Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples C. H. W. Johns
• The Prisoner at the Bar Arthur Train
• The Trial of Peter Zenger Unknown
• The Trial of William Penn and William Mead William Penn
• Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and Lawyers Unknown
• Letters to The Times upon War and Neutrality Thomas Erskine Holland
• A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds
• The Detection of Forgery Douglas Blackburn
• On Criminal Abortion in America Horatio R. Storer
• A Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations James Mackintosh
• Millbank Penitentiary Arthur Griffiths
• Birth Control Laws Mary Ware Dennett
• Celebrated Naval and Military Trials Peter Burke
• The Law of the Road R. Vashon Rogers
• The Old Yellow Book Unknown
• The Copyright Question George N. Morang
• Slavery and the Constitution William I. Bowditch
• The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert Various
• The Trial of Henry Hetherington for Blasphemy Henry Hetherington
• The Case of Oscar Slater Arthur Conan Doyle
• Our Changing Constitution Charles W. Pierson
• French Morality under the Regulation System Julie-Victoire Daubié
• Prisoner for Blasphemy G. W. Foote
• Body-Snatching Anonymous
• Behind the Prison Bars E. E. Byrum
• Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
• The Hudson’s Bay Company Charter Hudson’s Bay Company
• Resist Not Evil Clarence Darrow
• The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous
• The English Prison System Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
• Jurgen and the Law Guy Holt
• Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War Robert Granville Campbell
• The Twin Hells John N. Reynolds
• Considerations on the Negroe Cause Samuel Estwick
• A Brief Summary of the Laws Concerning Women Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
• The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Samuel May