Judge slams defense lawyer as inept, dishonest  Four years ago, I presented a reader participation exercise, " On Killing and Culpa...

Critique follows lawsuit alleging psychological torture at infamous Pelican Bay   Tucked away in a remote corner of Northern Californ...

  Vindictive "imagined public" a barricade to real reintegration    For many who have broken the law, the real punishment beg...

  Lawyer erred by not calling psychologist, appellate court holds    A trial counsel’s failure to call a psychologist to testify at the sen...

Attorney Paul Harris reads from  To Kill A Mockingbird .* Photo credit: San Jose Mercury A quick update on the case of Ronald Bridgef...

United States far out of step with global community Photo credit: Richard Ross, Juvenile in Justice "Life without possibility of pa...

Thomas Haynesworth hugs his mother. Photo: P. Kevin Morley, Richmond Times-Dispatch One Sunday morning in February 1984, Thomas Haynes...

Guest post by Jules Burstein* Three weeks ago while on a vacation in Fiji, I was on the third-largest island, Taveuni, walking in a light r...

A must-read case for forensic psychologists   "C.R." grew up in a chaotic, highly conflictual home. He was immature, socially klu...

The autobiographical romance " Summer Of '42 " depicts a coming-of-age relationship between 15-year-old Hermie and an older ma...

Photo credit: vistavision (Creative Commons) Attorneys: If you want your client released from jail, make sure the judge just had a bite ...

Click on a title to read the article abstract; click on a highlighted author's name to request the full article. JAAPL: Plethora of men...

You readers who completed the " Killing and Culpability " exercise a while back may be interested in the sentences that were hande...

I had no idea when I broke the news of this censorship controversy that it would generate so much mainstream attention. First Science ran ...