1. A short history of lethal mass violence, 2. The pains of Antigone: Criminology, the corpse, and conflict, 3. Towards a necrocriminology of mass violence, 4. Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide: The programme; the case studies, 5. Argentina: Modes of denying and acknowledging absent bodies, 6. Bosnia: Blood, bones, and burial as counter-discourse, 7. Spain: Graves and the generations after defeat, 8. Latvia: Representing complex atrocity in a divided society, 9. Poland: Human remains, ethics and industry in death camp commemoration, 10. The criminological lives of dead bodies