Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.

Written by a criminal anthropologist, this work reveals the fascinating case histories behind some of the author's most unusual and horrific investigations. It describes the steps he took in resolving each mystery - from baffling dismemberment cases to the identity of long-buried skeletons.

What makes a serial killer? Only one man really knows. John Douglas. A man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into the disturbed minds of some of the most savage killers in the world.

In 1981 Dr William Bass founded the Anthropology Research facility at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the world's only laboratory devoted to the study of human corpses. This is his personal account of the real Body Farm .

Addressing eight great mysteries in the history of crime, including Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler and JonBenet Ramsey, the authors take a fresh look at the crimes and dismantle the wisdom regarding the some of the most notorious of crimes and rebuild them - with astonishing results.

On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. Here Vincent Bugliosi, D.A. on the case, reveals the true story behind the most famous mass murder case ever - the orgies, the willing murders, the brainwashing and the retaliation slayings.