Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.

It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and her first for Blue Note Records.

Beauty & Crime won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on February 11, 2008.

After lukewarm commercial success for her last two albums, Nine Objects of Desire (1996) and Songs in Red and Gray (2001) A&M Records ended their contract with Vega[citation needed] with the release of the more commercially successful hits package Retrospective in 2003.

Vega embarked on an extensive tour and performed songs from Beauty & Crime in their early forms, including "Unbound", "Edith Wharton's Figurines", and "New York Is a Woman".