Male and female serial killers tend to choose their victims and commit their crimes in different ways, which may be due to thousands of years of psychological evolution, according to researchers. Male ...

In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and raised the equivalent of £17bn in compensation money. But that money wasn't paid to the enslaved people – it was given to Britain's slave owners ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

Sex crimes include rape, child abuse, sex trafficking and indecent exposure. Recent years have seen an increase in internet grooming of children by sexual predators. In 2011, Scotland's Lord Advocate ...