Tag: Criminal justice
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...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
What’s hidden behind the walls of America’s prisons
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Some...
Immigration and crime: What does the research say?
Charis Kubrin, University of California, Irvine; Graham C. Ousey, College of William & Mary; Lesley Reid, University of Alabama, and Robert Adelman, University at...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
