Ill news for the criminal fraternity.
Children who were arrested for begging.
A court room scene.
The execution of John Thurtell.
A campaign for more humane treatment of offenders.
A Syrian criminal.
A criminal avoiding policemen.
A Syrian criminal being punished.
A 'Cat-o'-nine-tails'.
A convict having his photograph taken for police records.
The prison reform movement.
A man being flogged.
The trial of Madame Laffarge.
The capture of Moses Shapira.
A criminal being punished by flogging.
Punishment by the stocks.
The torturing of a prisoner.
Prisoners in the exercise yard.
An undercover policeman.
A New York policeman.
A prisoner awaiting execution.
A condemned man.
A policeman.
A pickpocket distracting his victim.
A policeman stopping a burglary.
An intruder.
A convict in travelling irons.
A convicted prisoner being defiant.
A death by guillotine.
A burglar getting stuck in the window.
Northern English labourer stealing buried treasure.
A biblical scene.
Example of police records used for the identification of criminals.
Gang warfare in London, England in the late 19th century
The head of a 'Catchpole'.
The condemned cell at Newgate Prison.
A London policeman.
A public execution.
An execution by guillotine.
A village lock-up.
Convicts at work.
A prisoner in his cell.
18th century highwayman and victim
18th century highwayman flees a crime
A policeman and a burglar.
A store clerk being caught stealing.
Charles W. Bullard.
Kitty Flynn.
The murder of Benhadad by smothering two Kings.
Murder by Poison.
A cut-purse.
A clerk writing down evidence given by a witness.
An assassin.
The moneylender being visited by death.
ALGERIA: RIOTS, 1898.
An inmate having his picture taken.
Cornish wreckers.
Cain killing Abel.
Jael murdering Sisera by hammering a nail into his head.
An assassin taking aim.
A man poaching.
A poacher with his lurcher.
Punishment by Bastinado.
Tom O'Day was a member of the infamous 'Hole In The Wall' gang.
New York river police.
Animals on Trial.
A man and woman in stocks.
The looting of Mechelen.
A robber being visited by death.
An early method of taking mug shots.
A Police Officer surprising a burglar and holding a portable lamp.
Victims of the guillotine.
Police records used to identify criminals.
An execution by hanging.
A man being executed.
Old Patch.
Three men poaching.
The proportional number of victims of the guillotine during the French Revolution.
L'execution des Maillotins by Jean-Paul Laurens
James Dunlap.
Adam Worth.
John McCoy.
A burglar activating a basic home security locking system.
A burglar escaping down a ladder.
Burglary, satirical illustration
A 15th Century French villain.
A whipping post.
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: Thomas Simpson (Old Mob) who robbed high profile celebrities in 17th Century England and was hanged in 1691
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: 'Captain' James MacLaine a notorious highwayman. with his accomplice William Plunkett. He was known as the 'Gentleman Highwayman' as a result of his courteous behaviour during his robberies
NAST: TWEED'S DOWNFALL.
Boys taunting a man.
Prisoners confined in stocks.
A victim using a street telescope whilst a pickpocket steals from them.
Thugs with a cage of rats.
An escaped convict bribing a child.
The Stravinsky Affair.
Louis J. Freeh fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
HARRY KENDALL THAW
Public hangings and burnings at the stake of Heretics.
Criminals and police.
The double assassination attempt on George III.
Childrens book illustration about a highway robber
Wreckers luring a ship onto rocks.
Representation of the massacre of American prisoners in Dartmoor Prison.
HANS von GRIMMELSHAUSEN
Hudibras and Ralpho in stocks being serenaded by the fiddler with a wooden leg.
Prison officer.
The Police Arrested The Police
What Happened During The Night
ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOON.
A nurse chastising a child.
Convicts working under supervision.
A mother punishing her naughty boy.
A cell in a local jail.
A warden inspecting a cell.
Muscovite robbers on their way to commit a crime.
The Murder of the Princes in the Tower.
Al Capone.
Jonathan Wild.
OLIVER TWIST, 1837-38.
The French method of mounting mug shots.
Convicted prisoner.
POE: MARIE ROGET, 1843.
STEVENSON: KIDNAPPED, 1913.
The punishment of Titus Oates.
Convict hulk.
Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell. November 24. 1946 January 24. 1989) was an American serial killer. kidnapper. rapist. burglar. and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly ear
The Execution of a Criminal, From a Saxon MS, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
WILLIAM MAGEAR TWEED
WILLIAM M. TWEED (1823-1878).
Other Deeds Of Darkness
David D'angers
A prison warden.
The Massacre of the Innocents.
King Edward II being dragged through Berkeley Castle.
Caricature by French artist, Felix Valloton. Felix Edouard Valloton (1865 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis school of art. Original lithograph. Published in Paris in 1902 for L'Assiette au Beurre. Printed on wove
The interior of the Bow Street Police Station.
A Mandarin bureaucrat on trial.
Top Ten Most Wanted notice issued by the FBI for Osama Bin Laden.
The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat.
Smugglers.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs.
A religious book belonging to John, brother of James Hammett.
GEORGE A. ATZERODT
DAVID E. HEROLD
HENRI DESIRE LANDRU
A Detective.
Chinese prisoner is paraded and beaten through the streets circa 1800
History and origins of tattooing body ritual tattoos Japanese tattoo
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Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: John Nevison (1639 4 May 1684). also known as William Nevison. was one of Britain's most notorious highwaymen. a gentleman rogue supposedly nicknamed Swift Nick by King Charles II.
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: Sir Henry Morgan. a Welsh pirate. privateer and buccaneer. He made himself famous during activities in the Caribbean.
Lambert & Butler. Pirates & Highwaymen. cigarette card showing: Pierre Le Grand (French: Peter the Great) was a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source. Alexandre Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America. and may be ima
Bambridge on Trial for Murder.
Child Battering.
Medieval, Spanish nobles during a trial.
Muscovite robbers carrying a canoe overland on their way to commit a crime.
Scarface.
A schoolmaster administrating corporal punishment.