Evidence from courts, magistrates, police and surveys helps historians to calculate crime levels for different periods. More recently, the media also provides evidence of crime through news ...

This was a key attitude behind capital and corporal punishment from the 16th to the 19th centuries and led to different punishments for different types of crime. All punishments gave retribution ...

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, securities fraud is a broad term that includes many different types of crimes, all of which involve the “deception of investors or the ...