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Law & Justice, Politics

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Colleen Murphy

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Law & Justice

Law & Justice, Politics

The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform

Reducing prison populations isn’t enough. We need a new criminal system founded on priniciples of justice rather than fear of crime.

Joseph Margulies

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

Nathan J. Robinson

Law & Justice, Politics

Going Negative

At the Supreme Court, majority rules. Yet dissents have drastically changed the institution—and the country.

Thomas Healy

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Learning from the Watts Rebellion

Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s. 

Sekou Franklin

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Cold Case

The limits of using DNA to create images of subjects.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Teaching Philosophy on Death Row: An Interview with Lisa Guenther

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

Albert W. Dzur

Arts in Society, Law & Justice

Racism: Dumb and Personal / Smart and Structural

Opponents often associate racism with ignorance. But intelligent people promote oppression through colorblindness.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

Racism ensures that blacks are vastly more likely than whites to be imprisoned. However, there is more to the story.

Marie Gottschalk

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Corporate Welfare Is Draining Baltimore

We need to turn to the economic violence that attends police violence.

Lester Spence

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Elder Consent: The New Sex Panic?

One report on purported elder abuse describes victims as dependent captives “in highly sexualized environments.”

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Race

Police Manipulate Freddie Gray Story Through Leak

One of the many disturbing dimensions of Freddie Gray’s death after riding in a Baltimore Police van is how little the public knows about the circumstances.

Simon Waxman

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