A just system would shift away from punishment toward prevention and restorative justice. Community investment in programs, people returning to the community, and accountability are the path to a safe ...

The WKU Department of Society, Culture, Crime & Justice Studies hosted its monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday ...

The Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative released a report detailing historical roots and current drivers of mass ...

A proposed law in Illinois would automate record-sealing and make it easier for people with nonviolent records to land work.

The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked a New York State legal committee to investigate Emil Bove III, a Justice Department official who is seeking to end the prosecution of ...

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Above the stage, worn sneakers hung from the ceiling — a haunting reminder of the lives lost to an education system which never gave them a chance. “Notes from the Field ... education systems and ...

I recently took a class called “Punishment & Inequality” where we talked about the deeply rooted flaws of the American criminal justice system. As a criminology major, I’ve learned much about law ...

There have been ongoing calls for victims’ notes from counselling sessions not to be brought up during trials for rape or sexual assault. Section 19 A of the Criminal Justice Sexual Offences Act ...

The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington ... She said after the pushback, the Justice Department instead wanted to freeze assets in a bank related to the Biden-era EPA funding.

Just one year after the justice system in Liberia allowed several suspects accused ... Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast have all faced similar challenges, with criminal networks exploiting weak ...

Download the original PDF. 1 Sassoon in her subject line references the criminal case number of ... with her values of fairness. Our justice system is supposed to be impartial, Sassoon writes ...