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The Metastasis of the Misdemeanor System

The misdemeanor system is four times the size of the felony system. With so many gradations of minor crimes—many involving fines in a very informal process—prejudice and inequality shapes prosecution.

Brandon L. Garrett

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Law & Justice

Law & Justice, Race

The Roots of Black Incarceration

A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.

Joy James

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

The Genetic Panopticon

DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it.

Brandon L. Garrett

Law & Justice, Politics

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

Neil M. Richards

Law & Justice

Going Nowhere

A new law aims to deny pariah sex offenders even exile.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic scientists respond to allegations that their work harms the criminal justice system.

Wesley Vernon, Michael Nirenberg, Nathan J. Robinson

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny.

Anna Clark

Arts in Society, Law & Justice

Speaking in Tongues

Serving time in Richmond City Jail

Dave Byrne

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Moralistic efforts to guard against online predation do more harm than good.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Politics

The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform

Reducing prison populations isn’t enough. We need a new criminal system founded on priniciples of justice rather than fear of crime.

Joseph Margulies

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

Nathan J. Robinson

Law & Justice, Politics

Going Negative

At the Supreme Court, majority rules. Yet dissents have drastically changed the institution—and the country.

Thomas Healy

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Learning from the Watts Rebellion

Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s. 

Sekou Franklin

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