Describes some of the major crimes committed in the United States during the twentieth century and discusses the social impact of these criminal acts and the trial and punishment of the perpetrators.
Content Note
Includes the following: O.J. Simpson trial, Sacco & Vanzzeti, Leopold & Loeb, gangsters and g-men of the 1930s,Alcatraz prison escapes in 1962, martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, Watergate burglary.