Curated category
Criminology
- Battery (crime)The legal definition of battery centers on a single, concrete action: unlawful intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact with another…
- Forensic scienceIn 1248, Song Ci wrote a book titled Washing Away of Wrongs that described how to solve crimes using medicine and entomology.
- PsychopathyIn 1941, American psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley published a book titled The Mask of Sanity that described patients at a Veterans Administration hospital in…
- CriminologyIn 1764, Cesare Beccaria published a slim volume titled On Crimes and Punishments that would reshape how Europe understood justice.
- GangThe word gang derives from the past participle of Old English meaning to go or move. It is cognate with Old Norse meaning a journey or expedition.