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Reason
March 2007
Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up.   |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
InternetNews
September 17, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Bill Would Give ID Theft Victims More Weapons A bill containing provisions against cyber criminals that awaits the President's signature. Does it do enough? |
Reason
July 2007
Jeff Taylor |
Little Criminals Locking up bad kids with bad adults has long been recognized as counterproductive. Yet a recent report from the Justice Policy Institute reveals that many states simply do not have enough juvenile detention slots for young offenders, even those who commit nonviolent crimes. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Hard time for soft crimes Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that. |
ifeminists
December 30, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like? |
Fast Company
March 2000
Rekha Balu |
Cyber Crime Report from the Futurist |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
Salon.com
July 20, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Swept away Thousands of women, often guilty of little more than lousy judgment, are serving long prison sentences as drug "conspirators." |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
James V. DeLong |
The Great Gun Fight More guns mean less crime. Or they don't. Which is it? Two respected authors, John R. Lott Jr. and Robert Ehrlich debate... |
Reason
February 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Dangerous Assumption Sex offender registration: One of the main rationales for singling out sex offenders is the assumption that they are especially likely to commit new crimes. That belief, although widely held, seems to have little basis in fact. |
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley |
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. |
Information Today
December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
IDB America
March 2002
Daniel Drosdoff |
Prompt justice Venezuela undertakes a sweeping reform of its courts... |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 30, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Who Was That Masked Man? MSU professor talks about the problem of fighting ID theft and the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act. |
Salon.com
October 2, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
Disenfranchised Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow? |
| AskMen.com |
Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Deadly lies George W. Bush and Al Gore both believe capital punishment deters violent crime. They're wrong... |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Michael Moyer |
Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave? The bad economy doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for armageddon, argue some researchers. But maybe they've been looking at the wrong data |
| AskMen.com |
Crime Down In 2008: FBI Violent crime, property crime, murder and manslaughter all dropped in 2008. But there were some increases, too. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Penalties Upped for ID Theft Identity theft penalty enhancement act makes ID crimes more costly. |
Scientific American
November 12, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Partial to Crime Families become suspects as government rules on DNA matches relax. |
Salon.com
October 30, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
The drug war's littlest victims Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2009
Alex Goldman |
FBI, DOJ Agents: We're Gaining on Cyber Crime While the Internet helps criminals organize and to reach across borders, it can also help law enforcement catch them. |
Salon.com
May 9, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
The McVeigh effect The media buzz over the white Oklahoma City bomber's execution is eclipsing the truth about federal death-row inmates: Most are black or Latino... |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. |
Reason
February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Salon.com
February 8, 2000
Michael Kroll |
Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. |
Reason
July 2002
Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Love for Hate Crime Laws Enhancing penalties for crimes when they are motivated by bigotry punishes what people say, think, and believe, in violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously disagreed. |
Searcher
September 2003
Kenneth Fink |
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
DoJ Wants Cyber Crime Stats The Department of Justice is launching its first national survey to measure the prevalence and impact of cyber crime on U.S. businesses. |
Fast Company
May 1, 2007
Alex C. Pasquariello |
Fast Talk: Threat Reduction Symantec's Zulfikar Ramzan on figuring out online crime before the criminals do. |
Reason
October 2001
Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
