crime

The region that is the cradle of the Italian Mafia is the south of Italy - Sicily, Naples, Calabria and Apulia. Due to the presence of a non-mafiotized North and to some extent - the center of Italy and therefore - the presence of an economic and political elite competing with the mafia, the...

I got inspired to ask this after seeing @TheDetailer 's Golden: A Pop Culture Timeline Let's say that back in the late 1990s after British rock star Gary Glitter gets arrested for having CP on his computer, he ends up revealing to the authorities that there are other major sexual predators in...

<menacing synthesiser music> <a cube of fours made up of fours rotates supplanted by historic video, film and even black and white film footage vaguely referencing the voice over> The Amphetamine and Heroin epidemics The problems in the Towers Biker and Yugoslav bombings Burning children on a...

The Way Life’s Meant To Be An AJM8888 story Nishi-Shinjuku Tokyo early 1980s Times Square, Facing South, 1981 Main Building of Moscow State University, Moscow 1981 Piccadilly Circus, London 1981. Part I: Preamble Excerpt from The Long Way Round: My Rise In The FBI by Erik Nyygard...

Your challenge is to have there be a "German Mob" in America on par with the Italian, Irish, Polish, et cetera organized crime groups.

While "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" are commonly cited as two of the greatest movies ever made, "The Godfather Part III" is often looked upon as a flawed and disappointing sequel. After putting himself heavily in debt following a series of box office disasters, director Francis...

Hello all! Rejoice, for this is my first timeline!!!!!! (Seriously though, please go easy on me. I'm still new to all of this.) I shall be posting a series of alternate Sherlock Holmes films and tv shows. A few will be based on productions that were going to happen, but ended up falling...

This thread’s main purpose is to catalogue instances of Alt History where a Criminal/Gangster rises to a higher point of significance than they did in OTL. If they had a shift in political belief and if they’re seen as morally better/worse than in OTL. This thread is also a general discussion on...

According to this article, back in 2007 OJ allegedly threatened his new girlfriend, and a person that he believed she was sleeping with. If OJ had killed one or both of them, how would things play out? Would the subsequent trial be as much of a media circus as Simpson's previous one?

The challenge is to have a vast majority of the world have an average murder rate of lower than 3 people per 100,000. Is this realistic though? And what would be needed for it?

The challenge is to get the Romans to adopt the Brazen Bull as the primary form execution (as opposed to crucifixion) for criminals. What effect does this have on crime and punishment in the empire? Could you see Christianity adopting a bronze bull (ignoring the religious precedent of doing...