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This section is highly selective. It attempts to present classic literature of the past in which crime and criminal justice form a major theme.
Aeschylus. The Eumenides
Aristophenes. The Wasps
Balzac, Honroé de. An Historical Mystery
Berkman, Alexander. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Bible
Camus, Albert. The Stranger
Chekhov, Anton. The Shooting Party
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox bow Incident
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Redskins
Cooper, James Fenimore. Satanstoe
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit
Dickens, Charles. Pickwick Papers
Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge
Doctorow, E.L. The Book of Daniel
Dostoyevsky, Fyoder. Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyoder. The Brother Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyoder. The Possessed
Dostoyevsky, Fyoder. Letters from the Underworld
Doyle, A. Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier
Dreiser, Theodore. Jennie Gerhardt
Duma, Alexander. The Count of Monte-Cristo
Fielding, Henry. Jonathan Wild
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William. Intruders in the Dust
Faulkner, William. Sanctuary
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell. The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon
Harris, Frank. The Bomb
Hawthorne, Nathanial. The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Kafka, Franz. The Trial
Kafka, Franz. In the Penal Colony
Kafka, Franz. The Judgement
Kropotkin, Peter. In Russian and French Prisons
Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird
Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer
Malier, Norman. The Executioner's Song
Mann, Thomas. Confession of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1969)
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Foretopman
Melville, Herman. The Confidence Man
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible
Norris. Frank. McTeague
O'Neill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra
O'Neill, Eugene. Long Days Journey Into Night
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Scott, Walter. Rob Roy
Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William. King Lear
Shakespeare, William. Othello
Shakespeare, William. A Winter's Tale
Shakespeare, William, Richard II
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
Solzhentsyn, Aleksander. The First Circle
Solzhentsyn, Aleksander. The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhentsyn, Aleksander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles. Antigone
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John. East of Eden
Stendhal. The Red and the Black
Tolstoi, Leo. Resurrection
Tolstoi, Leo. The Death of Ivan Illytch
Twain Mark. Pudden'Head Wilson
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men
Wilder, Thornton. Heavens' My Destination
Wouk, Herman. Caine Mutiny
Wright, Richard. Native Son
Smith, Beverly. "Literature in Criminal Justice Education," Journal of Criminal Justice (1987)
Smith, Beverly. "The Fictional Con Man as a Teaching Tool," Journal of Criminal Justice Education ()