Setting aside this specific case, have you ever wondered why we legally punish people? There are many possible answers, all under dispute. First, some people favor punishment as a form of deterrence.

This past summer, I was talking with my son about the school year he just completed. We started talking about his teachers, and he mentioned a man who worked as a lunchroom aide. I think that what he ...

Last week, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal inmates. The administration bragged that it was the largest single-day granting of clemency in American history. But a ...

Recently, a number of shocking crimes committed by children have so frightened the public that prosecutors have sought to try youthful offenders as adults. Many people think that these exceptions to ...

One of the positive things about the media frenzy over cases like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Aurora Theater shooting is that these types of cases remind us there are profound mysteries of the ...