A resource for the History of Justice, Crime and Punishment : The Zoummeroff Collection on Criminocorpus

International audienceThe Zoummeroff Collection, accessible on Crimincorpus at collectionzoummeroff.org, contains over 6,000 images including archival records, rare prints, engravings, unpublished manuscripts, letters, posters, laments, and photographs. These documents date from the 16th to the 20th century and are supplemented by one hundred video interviews relating to the history of criminal justice1.The Zoummeroff Collection is the most important publically-accessible French private collection relating to the history of criminal justice. In 2014, Philippe Zoummeroff gave Criminocorpus the responsibility for its distribution, valorization, interoperability and long-term conservation.Here, we would like to describe the origins of this recently-digitized collection. By explaining the choices that defined its creation, we can better grasps its wealth, its limits, and several of its possible uses