When he was a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles in the 1990s, David A. Sklansky often participated in the selec­tion of juries. “I would hear potential jurors talk about their views about criminal ...

A criminal justice expert weighs in on a recent report to the United Nations outlining systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system. Scholars, analysts, and researchers spend entire careers ...

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This is the first installment in a six-part series about the institutions that shape prosecutorial decisions within the American justice system. Read the introduction and view other posts here. Modern ...

To anyone reading the headlines, it’s clear there are serious problems with our criminal justice system, but to people trapped within it, the harms run deeper than the headlines can convey. I saw this ...

America will never be in the business of rehabilitation or restorative justice if we cannot change the adversarial nature of the process. When a crime occurs, it’s the state against the individual.