Crime and Punishment
New Evidence of a Ferguson Effect

Debates about the latest crime spike have been deeply distorted and corrosively politicized.

Crime and Punishment
Sanity Sets In On Stanford Sexual Assault Case

Social media mobs feeding off moral outrage temporarily cloud peoples’ ability to think clearly about substantive public policy questions.

Crime and Punishment
The Brock Turner Dilemma

The problem with efforts to recall the judge in a Stanford sexual assault case.

Crime and Punishment
More Cops, Less Crime

Does America have an “under-incarceration problem?” It depends how you define it.

Crime and Punishment
Tempering Expectations on Prison Reform

Reducing sentences for nonviolent offenses won’t take a big bite out of America’s prison population.

Crime and Punishment
Misconceptions on Mass Incarceration

Sec. Clinton is taking a beating from the civil rights left over her strong support for the 1994 crime bill. But it probably had relatively little impact on America’s prison population.

Crime and Punishment
Resistance Mounts to Prison Reform

There are signs that the “prison reform moment” may be on hold—or at least, that the dissenters will be more vocal than they were last year or the year before.

Crime and Punishment
The End of Broken Windows?

New York’s City Council should make it easier for New Yorkers to start a business before making it easier for them to do their business on the street.

Crime and Punishment
A Public Shaming in Ohio

Is the pillory making a comeback in the United States? It would actually be a more humane response to crime than the grotesque prison system we’ve built.

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