Asking yourself about what you've "gotten away with" may change how you think about "criminals."

You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

US police departments began taking photographs of people they arrested in the 1850s.

In early nineteenth-century England, forging currency was considered to be such a subversive threat that it was punished with the death penalty.

The first criminal conviction based on fingerprint evidence took place in Argentina on 1892, thanks to a police official inspired by eugenics.

The “gay, frolicsome and amusing" rhymes of 1970s American prison slang.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.

In criminal interrogation, interrogators often ask questions and interpret the responses in such a way as to confirm guilt.

The Enlightenment brought the idea that punishments should be certain and mild, rather than harsh with lots of pardons and exceptions.

The grainy pictures speak for themselves. Or so thought many Americans who watched the video of the March 3rd, 1991, beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.