Governing through Crime

Just think of prisons as a kind of housing, the new public housing, and it may seem less crazy to wonder if the decline of the portion of Am...

"Prisoners retain the essence of human dignity inherent in all persons. Respect for that dignity animates the Eighth Amendment prohibit...

Sometimes legal academics can seem like prophets (or just very lucky). Just last evening we were hearing from Professor Nicola Lacey of Al...

Attack the Block is taut, scary, funny and ultimately insightful movie that just opened here about crime and fear of crime in a south London...

While there is a great deal of work to be done in extricating American states from mass incarceration and in clearing the social and individ...

President Obama said "justice has been done." Many headlines were more direct. "Revenge" was the headline in the Scotsma...

During my year in Scotland I've become increasingly impressed with the way dignity as a public value promoted by the European Convention...