From the publisher’s description:
This work demonstrates how a sophisticated analysis of documents once thought beneath scholarly notice–criminal records–can offer stunning new insights into the past.
Muir, Edward (NHC Fellow, 1992–93), ed. History from Crime. Edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 9780801847332.