Crime -- History -- Juvenile literature

This title explores crime and punishment throughout history. It features everything from public floggings, assassination, banishment and execution to fines, lashes, and poisonings!

Crammed full of 7000 years of law-makers and law-breakers with a rogue's gallery of pirates, witch-finders, highwaymen, torturers, traitors and tyrants. Read on for horrible hangings, putrid prisons and terrible transportation.

This title is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists all about vile villains. From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they schemed and terrified their way to the top.