Crime and Justice Archives

Are day fines a possible solution for the U.S. criminal justice system?

While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.

While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.

Noah Webster, author of An American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828, invented the word "immigration."

Abortion was first criminalized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century. A key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

The "deep state" idea of a shadowy parallel government, heard much in the news now, seems to be a concept borrowed from the Turkish experience.

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