Crime and punishment has always been an important part of television, but usually in the form of courtroom dramas. But sometimes, crime and punishment can take place outside of a court of law. In this ...

America is on the verge of a completely different approach to law and order. In the wake of the George Floyd killing and the massive protests against systemic police brutality and racism, the country ...

For the past five decades, the American criminal justice system has relied nearly exclusively on punishment as the mechanism for reducing crime and recidivism. The tough on crime era produced ...

As violent crime continues to surge in U.S. cities, experts discuss how to best address this pressing issue. Activists calling for jail and prison reforms rally outside of Brooklyn Criminal Court on ...

People tempted to shoplift get a warning in the cosmetics section of a drugstore in Auburn, Wash. (Shutterstock) Until a few weeks ago, had I been agile enough, I could have walked into a D.C. Metro ...

Callous and cultured, Lacenaire (left) inspired a fanbase. Two decades after his execution, Dostoevsky (right) read about him and used his story as inspiration for "Crime and Punishment." Heritage ...

In a justice system where safety is paramount, the debate between progressive prosecutors and their law-and-order counterparts rages on. With divergent approaches to crime, each camp champions its ...

Russian literature can be intimidating. It serves up dense, voluminous tomes filled with lots of suffering and names you might not be able to pronounce. But this summer The Old Globe Theatre has ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is coming to Washington, carried here ...

James Gow observed in his book War and War Crimes that, while many war crimes are so obvious that most people “know them when we see them,” the very existence of the concept of a war crime gives ...