Crime & Anti-Crime, WOU-Ṣāʿ
This category explores both sides of crime, delving into many different aspects and cases of unlawful conduct. It includes perpetrators as well as victims and those who fought against crime in an effort to establish a safe community environment.
Crime & Anti-Crime Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Wounded Knee Massacre, (December 29, 1890), the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota individuals by United......
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered at least seven people in 1989–90. Her case drew national......
Wyoming Massacre, (July 3, 1778), during the American Revolution, the killing of 360 American settlers in the Wyoming......
Frankie Yale was an Italian-born American gangster and national president, during its heyday (1918–28), of the......
Nathan Yalin-Mor was an Israeli journalist and political figure best known as a leader of the Stern Gang, a Zionist......
Younger Brothers, four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916),......
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is a Kuwaiti-born militant who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was part......
Ayman al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian physician and militant who became one of the major ideologues of al-Qaeda. Zawahiri......
Los Zetas, Mexican crime syndicate formed in 1997 as the enforcement arm of the drug-trafficking Gulf Cartel; it......
Zhao Gao was a Chinese eunuch who conspired to seize power on the death of Shihuangdi, first emperor of the Qin......
Andrey Ivanovich Zhelyabov was a Russian revolutionary and a leading Narodnik. Born to a family of serfs shortly......
Zheng Chenggong was a pirate leader of Ming forces against the Manchu conquerors of China, best known for establishing......
Zheng Zhilong was a Chinese pirate leader who achieved great power in the transitional period between the Ming......
Zodiac killer, unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have murdered at least five people in northern......
Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duke d’Épernon was one of the most powerful new magnates in French politics......
Abdullah Öcalan is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish nationalist organization,......
ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Majīd was an Iraqi Baʿth Party official and a cousin of Iraqi Pres. Ṣaddām Ḥussein. During his career......
George Ḥabash was a militant Palestinian and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).......
al-Ṣāʿiqah, Syrian guerrilla force sponsored by the Syrian government with the purpose of promoting the interests......