Crime

Policy

Defense Needs DNA, Too

Freeing forensic science from the pressures of prosecutorial bias

Roger Koppl | 4.18.2007 3:06 PM

Policy

"When People Think 'Worst School Massacre in American History,' I Want Them to Think of Our Company"

Brian Doherty | 4.18.2007 3:04 PM

Policy

The Gun Ban and the Gunman

Virginia Tech's gun-free zone left Cho Seung-Hui's victims defenseless.

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2007 6:24 AM

Policy

If Only the Killer Had Better Firearms Training

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2007 1:44 PM

Policy

A Blacksburg Thought

Jeff Taylor | 4.17.2007 8:58 AM

Policy

Roy Cooper Steps Up

Jeff Taylor | 4.11.2007 3:25 PM

Policy

Bums

Why there are no "happy hobos"

Peter Bagge | 4.4.2007 12:59 PM

Politics

City of Bruised Shoulders

Radley Balko | 3.29.2007 10:31 AM

Policy

PERFerted Crime Statistics

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2007 2:28 PM

Policy

Prison Rape and the Drug War

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2007 1:04 PM

Policy

Tyrone Brown Freed

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2007 4:51 PM

Policy

To Life, to Life! Or Fry 'Em?

Even sex offenders can be punished too severely.

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2007 5:15 AM

Policy

Zoned Out

Sex offender residency restrictions

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2007 8:05 PM

Policy

Prisoner's Dilemma

Incarceration and Crime

Radley Balko | 3.1.2007 2:14 PM

Politics

Arizona's Perverted Sense of Justice

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2007 12:53 PM

Policy

The Sneeze Rule

Radley Balko | 2.26.2007 11:32 AM

Policy

Newsflash: Social Science Lacks Predictive Power

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.20.2007 1:46 PM

Policy

Contempt of Due Process

Jacob Sullum | 2.16.2007 1:23 PM

Policy

The Beauty of Mandatory Minimums: You Don't Have to Ask for Them

Jacob Sullum | 2.9.2007 1:02 PM

Politics

"Billions of dollars of their money disappeared….I'm saying what difference does it make?"

Brian Doherty | 2.8.2007 6:16 PM

Policy

Felony Murder Charge in the Kathryn Johnston Death

Radley Balko | 2.8.2007 7:51 AM

Policy

I'm Sure its Act of Contrition Statistics Are Equally Impressive

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2007 12:04 PM

Policy

He Told Me He Was 12, but He Was Lying

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2007 10:47 AM

Politics

Boston Blows Up the Mooninites

Brian Doherty | 1.31.2007 7:11 PM

Policy

More Tales of Prosecutoral Excess

Radley Balko | 1.17.2007 2:50 PM

Policy

A 'Hard Lesson' in Prosecutorial Idiocy

Jacob Sullum | 1.17.2007 1:19 PM

Politics

It Never Crimes in Southern California…

Brian Doherty | 1.9.2007 1:49 PM

Policy

Also, Federal Express Is More Reliable Than the U.S. Postal Service

Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2007 12:27 PM

Policy

Reason Cited by Mississippi Supreme Court

Radley Balko | 1.8.2007 9:30 AM

Policy

Jailhouse Converts?

Radley Balko | 12.29.2006 4:12 PM

Policy

Regulating Around the Fourth Amendment

Radley Balko | 12.29.2006 11:25 AM

Policy

Smoking Joints and Broken Windows

Jacob Sullum | 12.15.2006 5:20 PM

Policy

Puzzle for the Governor: Is Life in Prison Excessive for Smoking Pot?

Jacob Sullum | 12.15.2006 1:07 PM

Politics

Could Torture Bring Down Bush?

Brian Doherty | 12.14.2006 11:32 AM

Policy

Selective Outrage

Radley Balko | 12.13.2006 7:48 AM

Politics

DWI Scandal in Connecticut

Radley Balko | 12.10.2006 7:23 PM

Policy

What's Behind the New Violent Crime Wave?

Nick Gillespie | 12.4.2006 7:32 AM

Policy

One More on the Johnston Case

Radley Balko | 12.1.2006 1:28 PM

Policy

American Gulag

Radley Balko | 11.30.2006 8:23 AM

Policy

One Ring To Ruin Them All

Anti-crime zones hurt innocents instead of protecting them.

Jacob Sullum | 11.29.2006 4:41 AM

Policy

Less Cons, Less Crime

Radley Balko | 11.27.2006 5:20 PM

Policy

Boston's Playstation-Fueled Crime Spree

Jacob Sullum | 11.20.2006 2:51 PM

Politics

"Stand Up, Or We'll Tase You Again"

Brian Doherty | 11.16.2006 8:05 PM

Policy

Shaq Attack

Radley Balko | 11.8.2006 6:58 PM

Policy

MySuit

Cybersex crimes

Brian Doherty | 10.20.2006 9:37 AM

Policy

The Case of Cory Maye

A cop is dead, an innocent man may be on death row, and drug warriors keep knocking down doors.

Radley Balko | 10.1.2006 8:42 AM

Policy

Is Your IP Address Harboring Pedophiles?

Spoofing Alberto Gonzales' permanent surveillance state

Jeff Taylor | 9.25.2006 8:06 AM

Policy

Hit List

Deadly sex offender registries

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.20.2006 10:43 AM