October 08, 2007

Crime and Punishment. A collection of early 20th century crime-related photos, including some occasionally frightening, occasionally depressing, but always fascinating mugshots. [via ectomo.]

posted by middleclasstool 16 years ago

Man, these really suck you in. Very addictive and intriguing site. That one mug shot--the "frightening" one--is going to haunt my nightmares, to be sure. Looks like a creepy R. Crumb drawing.
posted 16 years ago by kinnakeet
Crime and Punishment: Why Do We Conform to Society? A pair of brain regions work together to assess the threat of punishment and override our selfish tendencies.
posted 16 years ago by homunculus
From the second "frightening" link: Munro is listed in the NSW Police Gazette, 1924 as charged, along with Harris Hunter, with receiving stolen goods to the value of £536 4s. 1d., the property of Snow's department store Am soooo disappointed. With a visage like that, at the very least, he should have been The Ripper's older brother.
posted 16 years ago by BlueHorse
Wonderful stuff. I can create whole scenarios from each photo. Thanx MCT.
posted 16 years ago by squidranch
This guy's kinda hot. I wonder if he's got a great-grandson.
posted 16 years ago by The Underpants Monster
I wonder if he's got a great-grandson. Maybe this chap?
posted 16 years ago by Alnedra
Holy Spock, that's exactly what I was thinking.
posted 16 years ago by The Underpants Monster
Another for the "depressing" link.
posted 16 years ago by TenaciousPettle
Hey, I really liked that show "The Pretender"!
posted 16 years ago by Lara
posted 16 years ago by The Underpants Monster
Audible gasp!
posted 16 years ago by middleclasstool

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