Across the United States, millions of youth are demanding change, condemning the long-existing systemic inequalities faced by marginalized communities and mobilizing support to further educate ...

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The Justice Department has closed its year-old criminal investigation into former Trump national security adviser John Bolton and dropped a related lawsuit connected to the publication of his book ...

The UK government is already proposing further expansion to the basis on which companies can be fixed with criminal liability. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), passed in ...

On 9 July 2025, part 1 of the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, chaired by Sir Brian Leveson was published (the Report). Leveson was tasked by the UK Ministry of Justice with conducting a ...

Behind the walls of California State Prison, Sacramento, six inmates gather in the library for their weekly short-story club. The librarian introduces the day’s pick, Doris Lessing’s A Sunrise on the ...

A returned package sent from Seattle-based Books to Prisoners to an inmate in Texas. A name and address have been covered for privacy. Two nonprofit prison book programs say the Texas Department of ...

Two recent books about Honduras tackle an age-old question: At what point does the quest for justice cross ethical and possibly even legal lines and become villainous itself? Neither book offers a ...

Good science fiction requires close reading. That's what we're discovering as we embark on Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, the first book in her Imperial Radch trilogy. Not only are most gender ...

The government and legal profession are at loggerheads over what or who is to blame for a “crisis” in the UK criminal justice system. How safe are UK prisons? What is going on in women’s prisons?

A photo of Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer given what many view as a light sentence for sexual assault in 2016, now appears next to the definition of “rape” in a college criminal justice textbook.