Historically, the overwhelming majority of reforms are top-down, state-engineering initiatives that are never intended or designed to...
Criminal Justice
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...
These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent offenders, bystanders, and...
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...
Leaked document shows the FBI does not have to jump through a lot of hoops to get...
“Free speech rules don’t apply to Silicon Valley,” observes a civil liberties advocacy group. (Photo: Ian Higgins/flickr/cc)...
The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that evidence collected during an illegal stop can be used in court...
CONVICTED RAPIST BROCK ALLEN TURNER Brock Allen Turner, who withdrew from the university, was arrested after students...
By Jessica Mason / 04.30.2016 Efforts to gut the federal False Claims Act backed by the U.S....
By Joe Clark / 04.04.2016 Ten NYPD officers sat down on camera with NBC New York to...
Ava Kofman explores how the spectre of race, in particular Francis Galton’s disturbing theory of eugenics, haunts...
Photo Scott Hirko/Getty Images, Mosaic David Sleight/ProPublica By Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) / 03.29.2016: Â The Innocence Project...