The architecture of automated license plate readers turns local cameras into a far-reaching surveillance network that can be accessed by agencies that never purchased the devices.
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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.
Evolving views about parental gun ownership and liability will likely have ramifications in custody battles.
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.
Leonard Mack spent years in a US jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Here’s how identification procedures can, and have, led to wrongful convictions, and what can be done to prevent it.
Experts still disagree about why the US prison population has grown so much over the last few decades. But crime is only one part of the problem.
Whether crime is up or down depends on what kind of crime, what the comparison is to, and where you’re counting crimes.
Of the 13 mass school shootings that have taken place in the US, the three most deadly occurred in the last decade. Data from these attacks helped criminologists build a profile of the gunmen.
A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are on the rise.
A new analysis of crime data shows that anti-Asian violence, targeting people of Asian descent and their property, rose sharply during the pandemic.
At least five people were killed and many more were injured after an SUV crashed into a Christmas parade. A terrorism expert explains how vehicles have been weaponized.
Since Tyre Nichols’ death there are renewed calls for Congress to pass police reform legislation. But the federal government has almost no control over state and local police departments.
Recent efforts to restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, a crucial Democratic constituency, could have important implications for the 2020 presidential election.
Gangs are still a significant reality in US prisons. But most inmates say that their power has been watered down, and they no longer rule facilities with an iron fist.
It’s not so unusual that Democrats and Republicans converge on criminal justice, at least on the surface. Deep disagreements still remain.
New research shows that when ex-offenders are told they’re able to vote, their attitudes about democracy and justice improve. A November ballot measure in Florida hangs in the balance.
Official records on police homicides are full of holes. A new study tries to fill in the gaps – and finds new evidence of racial and regional inequality.
Does it make sense to compare the percentage of black Americans shot by police to the percentage of black Americans in the population? A new analysis suggests a different way of looking at the data.
The murderous cult leader’s notoriety has not diminished over four decades in a US jail.
As with our politics today, geography and race matter in the US criminal justice system. Should they?
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Interdisciplinary Forensics; Affiliate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Fellow and College Lecturer in English, Girton College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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Lecturer, Macquarie University