📚 Criminology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Why people break the law and what to do about it: theory, punishment and prevention, and the limits of the criminal mind as an idea.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject criminology 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
Crimes célèbres	Alexandre Dumas	1840	32
Hell's Angels	Hunter S. Thompson	1966	27
Criminology	Larry J. Siegel	1983	24
Juvenile justice	John T. Whitehead	1990	24
Criminology	Stephen E. Brown	2004	24
Kriminologie	Hans-Dieter Schwind	1986	23
Crime and criminology	Sue Titus Reid	1976	21
Criminology	Eamonn Carrabine	2004	20
Criminal	Havelock Ellis	2014	20
Criminological theory	J. Robert Lilly	1989	15
Introduction to criminology	Frank E. Hagan	1990	15
Criminology Today	Frank Schmalleger	1996	13
Forensic science	Stuart H. James	2002	13
Crime and criminology	R. D. White	1996	12
Criminology	Sandra Walklate	2005	12
Victimology	Leah E. Daigle	2012	12
Crime	Clarence Darrow	1922	11
Criminological theories	Ronald L. Akers	1994	11
Essential Criminology	Mark M. Lanier	2007	11
Criminology	Freda Adler	1991	10
Criminology	Steven E. Barkan	1996	10
Introduction to Criminology	Pamela J. Schram	2013	10
Introduction to Criminological Theory	Roger Hopkins Burke	2013	10
Criminology	John E. Conklin	1981	9
Behave	Robert M. Sapolsky	2017	9
The big con	David W. Maurer	1940	8
Introduction to criminology	Frank E. Hagan	1986	8
Research methods for criminal justice and criminology	Michael G. Maxfield	1994	8
Criminology	Frank Schmalleger	2010	8
Introduction to Professional Policing	Ian Pepper	2020	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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