A Mandarin bureaucrat on trial.
A female offender brought before a Mandarin.
Two constables escorting a prisoner on a train journey.
Thames policemen embarking on a river patrol.
The trial of Madame Laffarge.
Mary, Queen of Scots receiving her sentence.
Mary, Queen of Scots.
Mary, Queen of Scots being greeted by state prisoners.
Mary, Queen of Scots signing her deed of abdication.
A clerk writing down evidence given by a witness.
The effigy of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime, Woodcut Engraving from the Original 1808 Painting by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, The Masterpieces of French Art by Louis Viardot, Published by Gravure Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1882, Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, 1883
An English judge.
Socrates (439-399 BC)
John Howard (1726-1790)
Chinese prisoner is paraded and beaten through the streets circa 1800
Illustration from a 1935 edition of Gracia y Justicia.
Thomas Nast Cartoon of Boss Tweed and Tammany Ring, "Who Stole the People's Money? / Twas him.", 1871, Stereo Card
A form of Elizabethan punishment.
ASSASSINATION TRIAL, 1881.
The Effects of Good Government in the Country
The prison reform movement.
McNAGHTEN TRIAL, 1843.
VIGILANTES, 1893.
A man and woman in stocks.
The prisoners' dilemma in game theory demonstrates how communication among participants can drastically alter their strategy.
The interior of the Bow Street Police Station.
A London policeman.
An undercover policeman.
A New York policeman.
New York river police.
A policeman and a burglar.
Criminals and police.
A policeman.
A criminal avoiding policemen.
A policeman stopping a burglary.
A village lock-up.
A campaign for more humane treatment of offenders.
The execution of John Thurtell.
Ill news for the criminal fraternity.
A court room scene.
Children who were arrested for begging.
Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks
The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat.
The Great City Forgeries: Trial Of The Accused At The Central Criminal Court. Austin Biron Bidwell; George Macdonnell; George Bidwell; Edwin Noyes; Henry Avory
Animals on Trial.
CHINA: MINISTERS OF STATE.
Palace Of Justice, Beejapoor, India, 1871
EMILE ZOLA TRIAL, 1898.
A nurse chastising a child.
A biblical scene.
LEMUEL SHAW (1781-1861).
ALFRED MOORE (1755-1810).
1836 Rugendas Brazil Indian Masacre
A store clerk being caught stealing.
A Syrian criminal being punished.
A Syrian criminal.
Punishment by the stocks.
ANTHONY COMSTOCK
JAMES BRYCE (1838-1922).
WILLIAM MAGEAR TWEED
WILLIAM M. TWEED (1823-1878).
Boys taunting a man.
Murder of the Duke of Buckingham, drawn by Emile Bayard, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897
The abuse of the limited liability system.
The Last Sitting Of The High Court Of Justice
JOHN JAY (1745-1829).
PARIS: PALAIS DE JUSTICE.
A Police Officer surprising a burglar and holding a portable lamp.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
A convict having his photograph taken for police records.
A condemned man.
A man being flogged.
A man poaching.
Three men poaching.
A death by guillotine.
Victims of the guillotine.
Childrens book illustration about a highway robber
A. JOHNSON: IMPEACHMENT.
ROGER B. TANEY (1777-1864).
The Late Mr. Justice Quain
Chief Justice Whiteside
Mr. Justice Archibald, 1873
The Late Hon. J.P. Norman, Deputy Chief Justice Of Bengal, 1871
Justice Williams, Baron Gurney, Justice Maule
General Rafael Villegas Montesinos.
Bambridge on Trial for Murder.
Ante El Alcalde
The convict hulk 'Warrior'.
Execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico with his generals Miguel Miramon and Tomas Mejia by firing squad, 19 June 1867
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
A 'Cat-o'-nine-tails'.
A young boy receiving a spanking.
JACK THE RIPPER.
SCALES OF JUSTICE.
Painting depicting an appeal being made to the head of the tribe
Allegory of Good Government
NAST: TWEED'S DOWNFALL.
Painting of the Tianjing Incident
Sir Matthew Hale
Allegory of the Good Government
The Death Of Cato
Charles Abbott
Old Patch.
Prisoners confined in stocks.
ALGERIA: RIOTS, 1898.
Northern English labourer stealing buried treasure.
An assassin.
A prisoner awaiting execution.
A public execution.
An execution by guillotine.
The capture of Moses Shapira.
The torturing of a prisoner.
A poacher with his lurcher.
Smugglers.
A pickpocket distracting his victim.
An intruder.
A burglar getting stuck in the window.
Prisoners in the exercise yard.
A convict in travelling irons.
Convicts at work.
A convicted prisoner being defiant.
A prisoner in his cell.
The condemned cell at Newgate Prison.
King Edward II being dragged through Berkeley Castle.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky 1881 - 11 June 1970.
The Pillory
The Home Secretary, Robert Lowe.
DANIEL EDGAR SICKLES
WILLIAM PATERSON (1745-1806).
William Sessions.
Doctor William Dunlop
STEVENSON: KIDNAPPED, 1913.
Gang warfare in London, England in the late 19th century
The Right Hon. Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice Of The Court Of Queen'S Bench, Sketched At Lincoln On Monday Last, March 16, 1850
The Hall Of The Athenaeum Club
The Anarchists In Paris
The Burning Of The Alhambra At Granada: The Gate Of Justice
Mr. Justice Jeune
The War In Egypt: The Naval Occupation Of Alexandria, Impartial Justice: The Execution Of A Christian Incendiary
THOMAS HUGHES (1822-1896).
Opening of the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall
A farmer refusing to kill a duck.
A moth killed by a flame.
A mother punishing her naughty boy.
A schoolmaster administrating corporal punishment.
Cain killing Abel.
Jael murdering Sisera by hammering a nail into his head.
The murder of Benhadad by smothering two Kings.
The Massacre of the Innocents.
The double assassination attempt on George III.
An assassin taking aim.
The death of Abel.
Hunting The Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) In The Arctic Circle During The Late 19Th Century
NAST: IMMIGRANT CARTOON.
EDWARD II (1284-1327) King of England from 1307 Edward was forced to abdicate in 1326. Artist's impression of Edward being dragged through Berkeley Castle where he is supposed to have been murdered with a red hot poker
OLIVER ELLSWORTH
THURGOOD MARSHALL
15th Century French playing card.
WILLIAM CUSHING (1732-1810).
JOHN A. CAMPBELL (1811-1889).
EGBERT BENSON (1745-1815)
JOHN BLAIR (1732-1800).
HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN