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An Understanding Ear: How Martha Goddard Became An Advocate For Victimized Women

An Understanding Ear: How Martha Goddard Became An Advocate For Victimized Women

Pagan Kennedy on the Activist Awakening of the Woman Who Helped Develop the Rape Kit

By Pagan Kennedy | January 22, 2025

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America's Criminal Justice System

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America's Criminal Justice System

Irvin Weathersby Jr. on Racist Cops, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Traumatic Memory of Spending a Night in Chains

By Irvin Weathersby Jr. | January 8, 2025

How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

Rebecca Nagle on the Independence of the Muscogee Nation

By Rebecca Nagle | September 10, 2024

Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Why Everyone Deserves Their Day in Court

Leveling the Legal Playing Field: Why Everyone Deserves Their Day in Court

Abbe Smith on the Importance of Criminal Defense Attorneys to America’s Judicial Ecosystem

By Abbe Smith | July 12, 2024

In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions">What Truman Capote’s <emIn Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions">

In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions">What Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

Rachael Hanel on Teaching a True Crime Classic to Incarcerated Women

By Rachael Hanel | July 8, 2024

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

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How Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Knowledge Behind Bars

By Kwaneta Harris | April 4, 2024

Rethinking “Justice” in the Wake of a Violent Death Close to Home

By Laurence Ralph | February 23, 2024

Precarious Liminality: How Parole Keeps Ex-Prisoners Stranded Between Two Worlds

By Ben Austen | December 6, 2023

How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century

How the NYPD Attempted to Navigate Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in the Early 20th Century

Matthew Guariglia on the Challenges of Urban Policing

By Matthew Guariglia | November 17, 2023

How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth

How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth

Grace Elizabeth Hale Explores Racial Violence and Individual and Collective Complicity in the American South

By Grace Elizabeth Hale | November 8, 2023

Parole For Pay: How America's Criminal Justice System Was Slowly Privatized

Parole For Pay: How America's Criminal Justice System Was Slowly Privatized

Vincent Schiraldi on the Unholy Marriage of Fiscal Conservatism and Law and Order

By Vincent Schiraldi | September 12, 2023

How Systemic Barriers Keep the Formerly Incarcerated From Rebuilding Their Lives

How Systemic Barriers Keep the Formerly Incarcerated From Rebuilding Their Lives

Lara Love Hardin on Reaching Her True Potential After Prison—And Helping Others Do The Same

By Lara Love Hardin | August 14, 2023

How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma

How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma

Susan J. Brison on Perceptions of Self in the Wake of Sexual Violence

By Susan J. Brison | March 9, 2023

Daniel Hatcher on How the US Criminal Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

Daniel Hatcher on How the US Criminal Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

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By Keen On | February 24, 2023

How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

Greg King and Penny Wilson on Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb's Defense Attorney

By Greg King and Penny Wilson | September 22, 2022

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