Members of San Francisco's Public Defender's Office participate in a rally, including defender Elizabeth Camacho, center. (San Francisco Public Defender's Office / Courthouse News) BERKELEY, Calif.

The Prison Policy Initiative has released a report challenging the effectiveness of specialty courts as an alternative to ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...

Influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, criminal behaviour is a complex phenomenon. Academics across disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, mathematics and psychology work to ...

Stakeholders in the nation’s criminal justice administration have identified ways to address inherent challenges hampering the effectiveness of the system. They identified some of such challenges to ...

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) has revealed measures being adopted by the federal government to address prison congestion and enhance the ...

Immutable Chain of Custody Platform Addresses Critical Evidence Integrity Crisis as 66% of Law Enforcement Professionals Report Digital Evidence Has Surpassed Physical Evidence MIAMI, FL / ACCESS ...

Crime permeates our social fabric. It always has because we are all deviant and deviance is an underpinning of criminality. Whether you believe people are born criminals or socialized to become so, we ...

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 ...