Marc Renneville directs research at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS) and Criminocorpus, the academic online platform on the history of justice, crime, and punishment (Clamor, CNRS-Ministry of Justice). Among his works are Le Langage des crânes. Histoire de la phrénologie (The Language of Skulls: A History of Phrenology, French Society for the History of Medicine Prize, repr. La Découverte, 2020), Crime et folie. Deux siècles d’enquêtes médicales et judiciaires (Crime and Madness: Two Centuries of Medical and Judicial Investigations, Fayard, 2003), Vacher l’éventreur. Archives d’un tueur en série (Vacher, the French Ripper: Archives of a Serial Killer, J. Millon, 2019, Prix Sade for the Essay, 2020), and Le Chant des crimes. Les complaintes de l’affaire Vacher (The Song of Crime: Laments of the Vacher Affair, Gaelis éditions, 2021).