Crime & criminology

Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own award-winning research - on how democracy is more likely to thrive under high inequality, for instance - Oxford professor Ben Ansell explains the cul-de-sac of modern politics - and how we can make it better. Understanding t...

Jackie Malton was a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three female detective chief inspectors in the Met...

'The Many Lives of Mama Love' is a beautiful, page-turning and powerful memoir about Lara Love Hardin's transformative journey from identity theft to prison matriarch and eventually prestigious writer. It is a story about reaching rock bottom - and clambering back up; about self-forgiveness and h...

Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia will show us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes imaginable. Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist, her days spent at crime scenes collecting samples, standing over dead bodies in ...

British prisoners have to endure the most inhumane and barbaric conditions imaginable, so why do so many of them keep going back? Former inmate and documentary maker Chris Atkins has spent the last six years tracking the fortunes of a dozen repeat offenders to understand why the state fails to ke...

This is a gripping true account of one woman's encounters with some of the darkest criminal minds in history. Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop: over the course of her career she consulted on more than 850 homicide cases. Through her work, she crossed paths with Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Ke...

What makes a serial killer? How do you spot one? Is there any way of truly knowing? David Canter asked the same questions whilst developing the new science of criminal profiling, a revolutionary approach to violent crime investigations. In this highly acclaimed account, Canter reveals his methods...

Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own award-winning research - on how democracy is more likely to thrive under high inequality, for instance - Oxford professor Ben Ansell explains the cul-de-sac of modern politics - and how we can make it better. Understanding t...

This book retells the story of a series of murders by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Northern Ireland in the 70s. When convicted, the killers received over 2000 years in jail, the longest sentences ever given in a single trial in British legal history. The bestselling investigation of one of North...

350,000: the number of missing person reports opened in the UK every year. But how do we find the missing? Charlie Hedges is a pioneer in the field of missing persons over a career spanning nearly four decades. During his work in the police force, then at the Missing Persons Bureau and the Child ...