It has “a chilling effect against those exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and express their views.”...
Criminal Justice
Police across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national...
The nation’s Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys with law enforcement and...
Police interaction with black people can be much more insidious than these headline-grabbing moments we’re seeing today....
Many acts we would describe as crimes today were largely unprosecuted before the mid-nineteenth century. Introduction As...
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...
Counting adults who are unable to vote is intellectually dishonest, but that’s par for the course for...
Education for those behind bars is gaining more attention. In 2020, I’m going to take you to...
A bill before the New York City Council would help protect the public’s rights by ensuring the...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
Roman law provisions on desertion had features that were totally different from the common Roman criminal law....
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
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,...
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...
Getty Images Survey data shows a public that is conflicted about how law enforcement adopts new technologies...
Gloucestershire Constabulary at Northleach 1850s Pictures of Victorian policemen contain varied, conflicting and interacting strands of meaning....
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the ‘alt-right’ clash with police as they are forced out of...
Parchman Penal Farm. Female prisoners sewing, circa 1930. Flickr/Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Some rights reserved....
Research shows that in a city of 100,000, each new nonprofit community organization lead to a 1.2...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.15.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Deviance 1.1 – Introduction Merton’s...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pushing for stricter sentencing in criminal cases. / AP Photo/Frank Franklin II By...
Frederick Harran is the public safety director of the Bensalem Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, which has...
The LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana, a for-profit prison operated by the GEO Group. | Immigration...
Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a...