More than 40,000 restrictions leave rights, benefits, and opportunities out of reach for Americans with past convictions....
Crime
Laws such as these are unevenly applied and easily used to silence voices the powers that be...
Many acts we would describe as crimes today were largely unprosecuted before the mid-nineteenth century. Introduction As...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
It was sought after post-execution to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. Abstract From the...
Why are photographers drawn to crime scenes? Introduction The man in the photograph above is Dick Hickock,...
Counting adults who are unable to vote is intellectually dishonest, but that’s par for the course for...
Looking at crime in Elizabethan England and the brutal punishments offenders received. Thieves and Pickpockets The crowded...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance...
Prohibition evokes vivid images from fiction and history. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom,...
Roman law provisions on desertion had features that were totally different from the common Roman criminal law....
Headlines from that era that reveal a deeper history of popular interest in crime dramas, one that...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Three important factors are driving domestic terrorism. The recent mass murder at Walmart in El Paso was...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
In June 1924, Mussolini instructed Cesare Mori to eradicate the Mafia from Sicily. The Sicilian Mafia was less active...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
Historically, the overwhelming majority of reforms are top-down, state-engineering initiatives that are never intended or designed to...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
What is needed is a shift away from an attitude of punishment to an attitude of rehabilitation...
Saltaire Victorian village – Bradford, Yorkshire, England. UNESCO World Heritage Site As a regional forensic expert, Thomas...
Castillo de Zafra / Photo by Borjaanimal, Wikimedia Commons Medieval men and women were caught up in...
Multiple people are dead after a shooting took place near a Pittsburgh synagogue. Multiple people were also...
Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...