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Law & Order, Philadelphia Style

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.
by Sara Mayeux, Timothy Lombardo on November 17, 2017

The Murderer Who Started a Movement

David Gunn’s murder was the first targeted killing of an abortion doctor in America. His killer now has an opportunity for parole.
by Dahlia Lithwick via Slate on October 31, 2017
Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.
by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017

How a Gilded Age Heiress Became the 'Mother of Forensic Science'

Frances Glessner Lee created meticulous and gruesome dioramas of murder scenes, which are still used to train police today. 
by Sarah Zhang via The Atlantic on October 14, 2017

A Vestige of Bigotry

The Supreme Court and non-unanimous juries.
by Andrew Cohen via The Marshall Project on September 25, 2017

The U.S. Murder Rate Is Up But Still Far Below Its 1980 Peak

What we can learn from the FBI’s latest round of crime statistics.
by Jeff Asher via FiveThirtyEight on September 25, 2017
Illustration of Daniel Sickles in front of the White House.

In 1859, a Murderous Congressman Pioneered the Insanity Defense

After gunning down his wife's lover in broad daylight, Daniel Sickles tried to escape the gallows by claiming he was out of his mind.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via Narratively on September 12, 2017
A patient in solitary confinement at a special hospital at Broadmoor in Berkshire (1956).
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America Must Listen to its Prisoners Before We Make a Major Mistake

The anniversary of two major revolts remind us that tough-on-crime policies have created intense suffering in our prisons.
by Heather Ann Thompson via Made By History on September 8, 2017

The Killing of Sacco and Vanzetti

The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti over ninety years ago is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.
by Mary Anne Trasciatti via Jacobin on August 23, 2017

Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 31, 2017

A Presumption of Guilt

Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.
by Bryan Stevenson via New York Review of Books on July 13, 2017
Someone writes at a desk next to a gavel, with the scales of justice in the background.

The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians

How local prosecutors' offices have become stepping stones to higher office.
by Jed Handelsman Shugerman via SHUGERBLOG on July 7, 2017

Dramatic Courtroom Drawings From Decades of American Trials

The Library of Congress' new exhibition is "Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom illustration."
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 9, 2017

The Two-tiered Justice System: Money Bail in Historical Perspective

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.
by Cassie Miller via Southern Poverty Law Center on June 6, 2017

What’s Hidden Behind The Walls Of America’s Prisons

Prisons today undergo criticism but in the 19th and the 20th century prisons treated their inmates as "slaves of the state.”
by Heather Ann Thompson via The Conversation on June 4, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017

The Bitter History of Law and Order in America

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.
by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on April 6, 2017

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.
by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on February 8, 2017

Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
by Elizabeth Hinton, Timothy Shenk via Dissent on August 30, 2016
A portrait of a woman in an crime pamphlet labeled "the beautiful victim."
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The Bloody History of the True Crime Genre

True Crime is having a renaissance with popular TV series and podcasts. But the history of the genre dates back much further.
by Pamela Burger, Jack Miles, Joy Wiltenburg, Frederick Burwick, Karen S. H. Roggenkamp via JSTOR Daily on August 24, 2016

From "War on Crime" to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Boston Review on June 21, 2016
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016
Members of the 1976 United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Warren Burger, center.

It’s Been 40 Years Since the Supreme Court Tried to Fix the Death Penalty— Here’s How It Failed

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.
by Evan Mandery via The Marshall Project on March 30, 2016

A New History of Prohibition

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.
by Lisa McGirr, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2015
Nancy Reagan speaking at a podium with a "Just say no" logo.

The Suburban Imperatives of America's War on Drugs

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Process: A Blog for American History on November 17, 2015

I Found Prison Data Going Back to 1880. This is How Mass Incarceration Looks In Context

America put drastically more people in prison over the past few decades than at any time in the nation's history.
by Dara Lind via Vox on October 11, 2015
Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015
Malcolm X.

Malcolm X Assassination: 50 Years On, Mystery Still Clouds Details of the Case

Despite Freedom of Information requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public.
by Garrett Felber via The Guardian on February 21, 2015

John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on December 2, 2014

The Awakening of Thurgood Marshall

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.
by Gilbert King via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2014
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