Crime, curiosity, search for clues

How do the media portray family dramas and rampage shootings? What happens in a courtroom, what in a death row? Is a fingerprint a scientifically valid piece of evidence? What legal regulations are needed for assisted dying? Since when have women been hunting murderers in literature and television? And who cleans up? The authors provide answers and food for thought on these and other questions from the perspectives of justice, natural and media sciences, literature, and philosophy. In essays, interviews, reports, and portraits, they address topics such as murder, assisted dying, deadly family dramas, enlightenment, voyeurism, ethical questions, and even inquiries like "How much death is in a smartphone?". Spectacular violent crimes, the abolition of the death penalty, and police procedures in cases of unnatural deaths are examined through various examples from Germany.