Tag: Criminal justice
Why are private prisons controversial? 3 questions answered
John M. Eason, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Editor’s note: Private prisons have long stirred controversy, most recently over their role in housing undocumented immigrants and asylum...
Death penalty moratorium in California – what it means for the...
Hadar Aviram, University of California, Hastings
Both celebration – and ire – followed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of a moratorium on the death penalty in...
Why do so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana?
Amy Adamczyk, City University of New York; Christopher Thomas, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Jacob Felson, William Paterson University
American views on marijuana...
How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
Jessica S. Henry, Montclair State University
Television crime dramas like “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and its many spin-offs have fostered the popular belief that forensic...
Reduced sentencing for nonviolent criminals: What does the public think?
Kevin Wozniak, University of Massachusetts Boston
Partisan politics in Washington has found a new victim: criminal justice reform.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is trying...
I went from prison to professor – here’s why criminal records...
Stanley Andrisse, Howard University
Beginning next year, the Common Application – an online form that enables students to apply to the 800 or so colleges...
A former prosecutor reimagines how the criminal justice system can serve...
Andrew King-Ries, The University of Montana
For nearly a decade, I believed I was helping improve victims’ lives by prosecuting people who committed domestic violence...
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
