📚 Crime & Criminal Justice

21 works · ordered by editions in print

The system on both sides of the offence — policing, courts and prisons, and the hard question of what justice is actually meant to do.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject crime in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Criminology	Larry J. Siegel	1983	24
Yakuza	David E. Kaplan	1986	17
Killing for Company	Brian Masters	1985	15
Small sacrifices	Ann Rule	1987	14
Talking with Serial Killers	Christopher Berry-Dee	2003	14
Wiseguy	Nicholas Pileggi	1985	11
Criminology	Steven E. Barkan	1996	10
Talking with Psychopaths	Christopher Berry-Dee	2023	8
Dial "M" for Murder	Frederick Knott	1953	7
Criminological theory	Stephen G. Tibbetts	2010	7
The Phantom Prince	Elizabeth Kendall	1981	6
The Valachi Papers	Peter Maas	1968	4
Sexual homicide	John Douglas	1988	4
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner	1989	4
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages	Christopher Berry-Dee	2019	3
In the name of love	Ann Rule	1998	2
Tokyo vice	Jake Adelstein	2009	2
Games Criminals Play	Bud Allen	1981	1
My life with a criminal	John Kiriamiti	1989	1
The Big Book of Serial Killers	Jack Rosewood	2017	1
Spilled Milk	K.L. Randis	2021	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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