 Hubert Butler used "Magnum Crimen" as a starting reference for his research about the Croatian Society of St. Jerome in Rome and its support to the Ustashe during the Second World War and after.The book has seven full editions, and one abridged
where the full 1986 edition was released with a foreword by Jakov Blažević.The most recent, 2011 edition, translated into English, was published in two volumes, and includes two chapters which had been excluded from all earlier editions of this book, which, according to Serbian historian Vasilije Krestić, were censored upon the request of two Croatian communist leaders, Vladimir Bakarić and Maks Baće.