In a new column launching today, forensic psychologist Jarrod Steffan scours the academic journals as they roll off the presses and brings y...

A psychologist who helped police obtain a false confession from 14-year-old Michael Crowe has settled out of court for $1 million. A judge h...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this May in Graham v. Florida , restricting life without parole sentences for juveniles, relied in part upon s...

After more than a year in juvenile hall, 18-year-old Dante Green was given the chance of a lifetime: Join a Circle of Support and Accountabi...

Signs of the times? Happy New Year to all of my loyal subscribers and readers. As usual, a lot is going on and I have had little time to bl...

Speaking of restorative justice . . . A restorative justice approach that involves the Aboriginal community in sentencing of Aboriginal offe...

Citizens of peaceful and tolerant New Brunswick, Canada, have been shocked by a recent outbreak of racist and anti-Semitic vandalism of chur...

From a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry : Many communities have created specialized mental health courts in recent ...

The new issue of Criminal Justice , the American Bar Association magazine (Vol. 22 No. 3), features a roundup of cutting-edge topics at the ...

Drug courts. Mental health courts. Juvenile courts. All are part of a quiet movement of "problem-solving justice" that is sweeping...

"Mobile courts," "ghetto courts" spring up in India and Jamaica Most Americans tend to be pretty ignorant about the rest...

People with mental illnesses are vastly overrepresented in prisons and jails. In a promising attempt to rectify this problem, mental health ...

Drug courts are expanding nationwide in the United States. But do they work? And do they save money? A series of new reports suggest that th...