CRIMINOCORPUS is an online scholarly publication (ISSN 1776-0720), aimed at encouraging and diffusing research and debate on the subject of criminal justice history. It provides researchers and the general public with free access to a wide range of primary sources, many of them reproduced in full, together with analysis of key subjects by leading specialists in the field. The latter takes the form of thematic “dossiers” as well as a growing number of online multimedia exhibitions.
The content of this web-site is organised into five sections :
1.Online resources
Bibliography of French criminal justice history (1789-2008)
A guide to French judicial and prison archives (1800-1958)
Online collection of the Archives de l’anthropologie criminelle (1886-1914)
Web links
2.Online journal
The birth of criminology : the role of the Archives de l’anthropologie criminelle
Penal colonies
Crime and the criminal in fiction and the cinema
History of the Police
3.Online exhibitions
The death penalty in France : from Revolution to abolition
A visit to the penal colony of Saint Jean du Maroni (French Guyana)
The juvenile penal colony of Saint Hilaire (1930-60)
4.Research news (NEW !)
Aforum and notice board for researchers and for institutions and research groups linked to the Criminocorpus project
5.Teaching and learning resources
Timelines
Legal texts
Sources on criminal justice history
Criminocorpus also runs an online blog, carrying news linked to the web-site and providing information about the latest developments in criminal justice history in France and elsewhere.
URL : http://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org
Criminocorpus in figures (2009) :
*More than 65 000 references on French criminal justice history
* Access to more than 4000 selected online resources
* Over 20 000 pages of information and analysis
* Contributions from over thirty leading experts in the field, and more than forty online articles
