Tough Crimes is a collection of court cases that had surprising turns or presented personal and ethical challenges: Edward Greenspan writes on one of his most perplexing verdicts; Richard Wolson and Marilyn Sandford on the wrongfully convicted; Earl Levy on the Toronto Shoeshine Boy murder; Peter Martin on evil in men; John Rosen on defending Paul Bernardo; Fred Ferguson on a child's sad death; William Smart on an RCMP"Mr. Big" sting; Richard Peck on the Air India trial; Noel O'Brien on corpora delicti; Joel Pink on the Antigonish Beech Hill murders; Brian Beresh on unanswered questions; Patrick Fagan on reasonable doubt; Mark Brayford on Robert Latimer; Marie Henein on the wrongfully charged; C.D. Evans on weighing moralities; William Trudell on the Walkerton water treatment tragedy; forensic psychologist Thomas Dalby on the Taber school shootings; John Vertes on aboriginal justice; and Hersh Wolch on a young prosecutor's trial by fire.