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Public displays of torture carried out by executioners were popular events in France, yet the executioners themselves, 'Les Bourreaux' were hated and shunned by society.

The intriguing case of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru and how police misinterpreted a crucial piece of evidence allowing the secrets it contained to remain untold.

In San Francisco in 1936 a series of holdups escalated into armed robbery and eventually murder, all carried out by a trio of teens that the newspapers dubbed the "Baby ...

With outlandish antics inside the courtroom and a taste for revenge, by the turn of the 20th Century, Isabella Martin was a name California's legal system had come to loathe.

San Francisco's William Sanford was Rodion Raskolnikov’s 20th-century embodiment, a man whose murderous path in 1948 paralleled that of Crime and Punishment's most famous character.

Extensive research suggests that exposure to violence can affect children’s health and well-being for years into the future. It also can desensitize them, leading them to see violence as an acceptable way to ...

Christopher J. Ferguson, Professor of Psychology at Stetson University states that there is no evidence to support claims that violent video games and real-world violence are connected.

This is the story of extortionist Peter Macari and what became known as the “Qantas Bomb Hoax” – Australia’s greatest-ever heist.

New research examines how men’s physical appearance might influence whether they are perceived to be threatening and the types of punishment they receive.

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 enabled the discovery of the Lucifer Effect; when ordinary good people become perpetrators of evil, but at what cost?

The odds of signing a false confession are 4.5 times higher for people awake for 24 hours than for those who had slept eight hours the night before.

A closer look at the unsolved murder of university student Faith Hedgepeth in September 2012, a case resting on a DNA profile with no known match.