“We cannot punish our way out of systemic failures, and we cannot excuse away personal responsibility. The next era of ...

In the United States, the criminal justice system is one of many public institutions whose workings span multiple jurisdictions. If you’ve been arrested and served jail time, it’s not uncommon to ...

Americans of a particular ideological bent would have you believe that Donald Trump’s prosecution and conviction for falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

This summer, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals published in the Vanderbilt Law Review what he called a “spirited defense” of the American criminal justice ...

Crime permeates our social fabric. It always has because we are all deviant and deviance is an underpinning of criminality. Whether you believe people are born criminals or socialized to become so, we ...

The Committee on Law and Justice will convene an ad hoc committee to review and assess existing evidence on how observed racial differences in criminal justice might be reduced through public policy.

During the sentencing of a Columbia teen it was revealed the defendant had numerous contacts with the justice system prior to ...