This is a new and annotated edition ("Kommentierte Ausgabe") with the following features: * A comprehensive introduction on the author and historical background * Extensive notes explaining unusual and obsolete words as well as supplying information on persons, events, and the general background. * An appendix with a selection of additional material. "Die Psychologie des Mordes" (The Psychology of Murder") was originally published in 1875. Here Franz von Holtzendorff (1829-1889), one of the leading legal scholars of his time and an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, studies the...