Preamble Crime Scenes By Lewis H. Lapham The American fondness for the dressing up of crime in the costumes of romance is an amusement priced at too high a cost. More
Essay From the Drawing Room to the Gutter By Charles Taylor Crime fiction affords its readers a way to acknowledge the world’s violence without either succumbing to despair or believing it can be made to go away. More
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. —Michel Foucault, 1975
