Attempts to understand why people offend can clash with deeply-held ideas about responsibility and what punishment someone deserves.
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What shapes leaders’ responses to issues of crime and justice is not that toughness wins, but that leniency-gone-wrong loses.
New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and racial inequality.
Used carefully, psychopathy research can help the law make better decisions. Used carelessly, it can turn a contested scientific construct into a shortcut for fear.
Victims have had to pay thousands of pounds for transcriptions of their court cases.
Why do rap lyrics continue to be used to demonize people inside and outside the courtroom, in ways that no other art form has to contend with?
A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.
AI is making its way into the courtroom, but it can never replicate the moral legitimacy of a human jury.
Lee Milne, 39, was convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to eight years in custody.
There are never enough lawyers to provide indigent defense, but the situation has gotten worse since the pandemic.
Rape myths relating to male survivors often blame victims, minimise the harm or exonerate the accused.
At least 20 million Americans have served time. Most of them can’t or don’t vote, and that may distort some election outcomes, a political scientist argues.
The offence Mountbatten-Windsor is being investigated for – misconduct in public office – is famously vague and complex.
Florida’s new unified human trafficking database allows criminologists to determine the scope of the problem and find patterns of exploitation.
A standard definition of recidivism would make it possible to identify what works to reduce reoffending.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s rejection of child-pornography mandatory minimums reflects an allegiance to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not a crisis.
Canada and the European Union could amend key laws designed to shield companies from American sanctions, which could significantly aid in the operation of the International Criminal Court.
The fines of $250 for a first offense and $500 for a second hit low-income families the hardest.
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.
Prison conditions should comply with human rights obligations and avoid cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment of prisoners.
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Professor Emerita of Criminology, UNSW
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Director, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University
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Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Woodruff Deem Professor of Law and Distinguished Fellow of Religion, Brigham Young University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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