Did Andres Aranda Ortiz die for his crimes or his anarchist beliefs in a Barcelona prison just before Christmas 1934? Chris Ealham considers an episode that lays bare the social and political tensions of a Spain on the eve of civil war.
John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.
Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.
Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law into their own hands.
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.
Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.
J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.
By C.R. Boxer.
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.
