After more than a decade of cases that span the centuries, the duo has curated "Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake," on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

Although there was a dramatic increase in the number of crimes that were punishable by death, the actual number of executions fell from the mid-17th century onwards. People found guilty of other ...

In the face of a rising crime rate, attitudes to punishment in the 16th and 17th centuries were very ... most of the period before the 19th century. Serious crimes in Tudor and Stuart times ...