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20th Century…

How the Albanian Mafia Infiltrated the Government

26 Nov 202026 Nov 2020
By Logan Lafferty Organized crime increasingly became a problem in Albania in the 1990s, after the fall of its communist government. Crimes like blackmailing, intimidation and racketeering were constantly increasing.…
18th century…

The Urban Mysteries: Organised Crime in Victorian Popular Literature

24 Nov 202024 Nov 2020
Stephen Basdeo The Following was a lecture delivered by Stephen Basdeo at Richmond: The American International University on Wednesday 18 November 2020 to students in GEP4180: Organised Crime in Popular…
18th century…

Hanging the Slave Traders

1 Oct 2020
Books with the title of The Newgate Calendar were published as early as the mid-eighteenth century. Mostly they were collections of “Last Dying Speeches” of criminals and short biographies of…
19th Century…

A Murder-Suicide in Stephen Basdeo’s Victorian Ancestors: The Case of George Leedham (1871)

15 Aug 2020
By Stephen Basdeo I have been doing a lot of work this past year tracing my ancestors and discovering their history. Imagine how delighted (wrong word, perhaps!) I was when…
18th century…

The Fine Art of Murder

24 Jul 202024 Jul 2020
Stephen Basdeo This website usually deals with the 'fun' side of crime history by discussing mobsters, outlaws, and highwaymen. Yet not all portrayals of crime and criminals were wild and…
17th century…

“The Truth and Nothing But the Truth”: Its first use in popular culture

20 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo ‘The truth and nothing but the truth’—it’s a well-known phrase used in courts of law and most of us have probably heard it in some police procedural…

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