While the excesses of American policing are magnified by racism, they are also independent of it—and almost all Americans share some responsibility for our excessively punitive culture.

Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez is a cautionary tale about self-deception and moral passivity.

It’s time for this issue to be taken seriously as a failure of governance.

The key to criminal justice reform is not police misconduct or mandatory minimum sentences, but the plea bargaining system.

What the 19th-century philosopher would suggest on criminal justice reform.

The perils of policy-making-by-outrage.

The American public holds contradictory views on crime and incarceration.

A low police clearance rate contributes further to a sense of disorder and lawlessness in the Windy City.

Plea coercion.

Two policy fixes for the decline in jury trials.