Greatest Crime Non-Fiction Ever Written (Grapevine edition)

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases | The Red Record | Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges Practitioners and Students | A Book of Remarkable Criminals are the Greatest Crime Non-Fiction Ever Written. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - African American womens rights and civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells later known as Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) was prominent in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Her well-known pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases was released in 1892. This booklet served as documentation for her investigation into and opposition to lynching coupled with her 1895 book The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. Wells visited the UK in 1892 at the request of British Quaker Catherine Impey. Impey a racial equality and anti-imperialism activist wanted to make sure that the British public was aware of the issue of lynching. The Red Record compiles these acts of savagery into comprehensible impartial statistics letting the awful numbers speak for themselves. It was the author Ida B. Wells original intention for the pamphlet to embarrass and shock the complacent public—and spur change—by describing actual instances of lynching and listing the common justifications for these extrajudicial deaths alongside the total. Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges Practitioners and Students - Hans Gross is the author of Criminal Psychology. Nothing less than an applied psychology of the judicial processes—a critical examination of the processes related to the administration of justice with due recognition of their psychological nature but also with the understanding provided by a responsible experience with a functioning system—is what Professor Gross presents in this volume. One of the finest writers in history was Alexandre Dumas. A Book of Remarkable Criminals - The most intriguing criminals have been gathered by Henry Irving. The first sentence of the introduction reads The silent workings and even more so the explosions of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of mans nature present considerations of intrinsic interest to the philosophical observer; while to the jurist the study of human nature and human character with its infinite varieties especially as affecting the connection between motive and action between irregular desire or evil disposition and crime itself is equally indispensable.--Wills based on Indirect Evidence.