Explore how U.S. criminal law defines, prosecutes, and punishes crime — including key elements, defenses, sentencing rules, ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

A lot of people are saying that white privilege is rampant within the criminal-justice system. Let me correct that. White privilege is the criminal-justice system. And the recent case involving a ...

Amnesty International warned on Friday that Colombia's military criminal justice system's continued use of military courts to handle killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and other grave ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind ...

We’ve seen encouraging signs our government is prioritizing veterans who stumble, but more is needed, says David MacEwen, a ...