Henry F. Fradella

(He/Him/His)
  • Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Professor of Interdisciplinary Forensics; Affiliate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
The camera on a robot vacuum cleaner captured this cat. What else did it capture around the house? voorts/Wikimedia Commons

Your robotic vacuum is a witness: What home robots mean for evidence, privacy and the law

Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.
Banning students from writing theses and dissertations on sexual orientation and gender identity could be seen as curtailing students’ freedom of speech rights. Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images

Texas Tech’s new limits on how faculty teach gender identity and sexual orientation challenge more than free speech

A new memo blocks graduate students from writing theses or dissertations on certain topics, raising questions about academic freedom and the purpose of higher education.
Nine of every 10 detained defendants in the U.S. remain in jail awaiting trial because they cannot pay bail money. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File

Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety

President Trump wants to punish states and cities that eliminate bail money, but releasing defendants pretrial without having to post bail doesn’t lead to higher crime rates, data shows.
A 2012 training session between two New York police officers demonstrated a way stop-and-frisk encounters could be handled. AP Photo/Colleen Long

‘Stop‑and‑frisk’ can work, under careful supervision

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn’t necessarily inherently racist – though New York’s program was.

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