this is a list on violence and crime related resources. It was once part of my general resources list.

✰ - New links

Online Encyclopedias/Links that might be useful

• Murderer Encyclopedia
• Crime Library
• Explore Forensics ✰

Guides

• A Guide to Torture
• Opening a door using a credit card
• Hiding a corpse
• Limits of the human body
• Black Market Prices
• Stages of deterioration in the human body
• Poison Gas and how it works
• How Crime Scene Clean-up Works
• A Guide to Blood Loss
• Tips on gun scenes
• Arson and Arsonists.
• A Simplified Guide To Bloodstain Pattern Analysis ✰
• A Simplified Guide to Fingerprint Analysis ✰
• The 21 Steps of an Autopsy✰

Lists

• 10 poisons used to kill people
• More on Poison
• List of unusual deaths
• 10 things to avoid when writing about guns
• 10 medieval torture devices ✰

Infographics ✰

• Major causes of death in the 20th Century