More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
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When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
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...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United...
Lawyers spoke their own language, even in the Middle Ages. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried...
Athenians preferred to memorialize punishments for eternity. By Dr. Danielle S. AllenJames Conant Bryan University Professor of...
Medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and merchants had little need for it. Abstract...
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
Two powerful and often conflicting legal systems had emerged. Early Development When the Germanic tribes entered the...
Recovering a more capacious social topology from the Thomist theology that modern Western philosophy supplanted. Titled Declarations of Dependence:...
Socrates said that law was a discovery of the reality in relations – that is, of the...
Castillo de Zafra / Photo by Borjaanimal, Wikimedia Commons Medieval men and women were caught up in...
Examining the emergence of ancient Egyptian law out of religion and specifically arising from the concept of maat. By...
The Athens Acropolis as seen from the Court of Cassation (Areopagus, i.e. the “Stone, or Hill, of Ares”)...
This article provides a clue on China’s criminal policy on lenient punishments in history, including the Confucianization...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
In response to drastic unjust debt and legal principles the Plebeians deserted their positions in society and...
The historical importance of Roman law is reflected by the continued use of Latin legal terminology in...
Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
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Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. By Adriaan...
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...
Gloucestershire Constabulary at Northleach 1850s Pictures of Victorian policemen contain varied, conflicting and interacting strands of meaning....
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...