L ong- dormant case spawned today's sex offender registries. B ut w ould these laws have made a difference?  Twenty-seven years...

In line with the human rights theme of this year's Blog Action Day (it's exciting to be coordinating with 2,000+ other bloggers f...

No, not beer. Or soda. Or abs. Six-pack photo lineups -- perhaps the single largest cause of wrongful convictions. Frustrated with a string ...

Have you ever: Drawn a picture of an SUV? Worn a hoodie? Refused an order to sod your lawn? Given the wrong account of history? These are am...

The Changeling is a powerful film. It tells the long-forgotten story of a working-class woman who brought down the corrupt establishment of ...

The October issue of Criminal Justice and Behavio r is a special issue on Pseudoscientific Policing Practices and Beliefs . There are some g...

Domestic espionage and arrests get little attention I try to steer away from electoral politics on this blog, despite the abundance of tanta...

Confidential informants are the lifeblood of law enforcement's effort to fight crime. But the best informants are generally very bad peo...

Pioneer in study of police interrogation tactics A British forensic psychologist who pioneered in the study of police interrogation tactics ...

Florida sex offenders may possess porn Florida sex offenders on probation can possess pornography so long as it does not relate to their ...

A new DNA technique has exonerated the father , but the passage of time makes the mystery of who killed JonBenet Ramsey in 1996 unlikely to...

Detective won't face charges in Tim Masters case A special prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges for perjury or illegal ea...

Richard A. Leo , a law professor at the University of San Francisco and one of the top scholars in his field, has just published what promis...

In a special "gala" issue of Criminology & Public Policy , 27 of the most influential criminologists alive take policy policy ...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) publishes a series of empirically based manuals ...

U.N. Committee calls it "torture" In the wake of the deaths of six people in just one week and a videotaped incident at an airport...

Do you think that a crime is just, as Webster's would say, "an unlawful activity"? Think again. Yesterday, I was horrified to ...