This is the third in a six-part series examining major policing strategies through a research-grounded lens, assessing each ...
Whether working in traditional criminal justice fields, such as policing and corrections, or in related fields such as paralegal services, social work or public policy, countless of professions ...
The question of why people choose to commit crimes—often in the face of severe consequences—is at the root of criminal psychology, a branch of study that focuses on the intentions and behaviors of ...
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Mistake of law as a defense to criminal liability deserves a second look. The proposition that a defendant should be able to raise a mistake of law defense to a charge that he committed a malum ...
Evan Bernick is a visiting legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. In the wake of media reports that 40,000 new federal, state, and local ...
Genetics is just the latest specialist knowledge threatening to take the question of criminal responsibility away from law and hand it over to science. Graham/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Welcome to Biology ...
Psychiatrists wanted people found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ to be dispatched to places like the Asylum for Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor. Illustrated London News, 1867/ Public domain, Wikimedia ...
The question of why people choose to commit crimes—often in the face of severe consequences—is at the root of criminal psychology, a branch of study that focuses on the intentions and behaviors of ...