New legislation aims to standardize when juveniles are detained, give prosecutors the ability to charge juveniles as an adult ...

The police success rate in solving murder cases in the U.S. has declined sharply in the past 50 years, a new report shows. The decline may be the result of better legal protections for the accused, a ...

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More than one in four Americans have been a victim of violent crime in the past decade, but few were able to get the help they deserve. Less than 10 percent of violent-crime victims get assistance ...

A scathing report from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division found the Memphis Police Department engages in a pattern of discriminatory policing, including violence against the disabled, and ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...