Prison Courtyard, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.

Prison Courtyard, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.

Crimes & Punishments

Volume II, Number 2 | spring 2009

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Soldiers and police establishing line at door of the Morgan Bank after anti-capitalist Wall Street bombing, September 16, 1920.

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.

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Painting of sailors fighting pirates

Hostile Takeovers

By Matthew Power

Are the values espoused by Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded?

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Map

Spider Men

The world’s most-wanted criminals.

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1597 | London

Enemy of the State

Drawing a confession. More

1577 | London

Setting the Crooked Straight

What is a felon?More

1651 | Paris

Order of Mischief

A philosophical hierarchy of crimes. More

Charts & Graphs

Abandon All Hope

Abandon All Hope

Punishments meted out to sinners in Dante’s Inferno.

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Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Joseph Heller

Don DeLillo standing outside in a jacket, black and white photo

British scholar and military officer T.E. Lawrence.

Thomas Nashe

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

American lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche & Clarence Darrow

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