In a new podcast, Scott Duxbury discusses his research, "Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law...
by Julie Wiest, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Contemporary Philadelphia is known for many things: cheesesteaks, cream cheese,...
by Joshua Page, Spring 2017 Contexts
I cold-called Bettie. Her son, Terrance, had a warrant for a serious crime, and he had turned himself...
Immigrants detained in a privately run detention facility while awaiting deportation decisions are far less likely than those held in...
Ramen noodles are supplanting the once popular cigarettes as a form of currency among state prisoners, but not in response to bans on...
The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more...