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Why do we love true crime? The phenomenon behind our obsession
If you go on the Podcast charts on Apple or Spotify, you will find that at least three of the top 10 podcasts are true crime related....
Siena Roberts
Apr 26, 20233 min read
Cruel and unusual or adequate healthcare: Looking at the circuit split
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision where the Court interpreted the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and...
Samuel Disario
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Running an inherent risk: Executing the innocent
Charles Flores is a man with an innocence claim facing execution on Texas Death Row. Twenty-four years ago, Flores went to prison for the...
Sarah Pape
Apr 25, 20234 min read
Admission not required: The conflict of repatriation and museums
The trafficking of arts, antiquities and cultural property is a criminal practice that has become inveterate in society as actors look to...
Andrew Gamble
Apr 18, 20234 min read
“Getaway Car” versus “Slatty:” Lyrics evidence exacerbates racial disparities
Jeffery Lamar Williams, known professionally as Young Thug, is standing trial for multiple charges, including conspiring to violate...
Angela Chen
Apr 17, 20234 min read
New Washington D.C. criminal code halted at the finish line
D.C.’s proposed new criminal code stood strong following Mayor Muriel Bowser’s attempted veto of the bill that would impose a rewrite to...
Elena Pomponio
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Police brutality: Is it really a race problem?
TW: Racism, Police Brutality, Violence When asked about the recent murder of 29 year old Black civilian, Tyre Nichols, in Memphis,...
Nyia McCree
Mar 28, 20233 min read
Is investigative genetic genealogy a menace to our privacy rights?
Ever since investigators revealed that a genealogy website helped police catch one of America’s most notorious serial killers, the Golden...
Madison Gestiehr
Mar 28, 20233 min read
How cognitive behavioral therapy reduces crime
Almost 50% of inmates suffer from some form of mental health issue that becomes exacerbated when prison walls restrict their freedom....
Grace Schneider
Mar 9, 20233 min read
Book censorship in prisons
“The Coloring Book Looney Tunes,” “Learn to Draw Disney Winnie the Pooh,” and “Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Catalog” may sound like...
Gaia Lodovici
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Closing the data broker loophole: 4th Amendment is Not for Sale Act
In 1986, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Title II of ECPA, commonly known as the Stored Communications...
Bailey Beckman
Feb 26, 20234 min read
A murderer’s motive: Analyzing the Idaho murders
TW: Violence What pushes someone to take the life of another individual? Scholars have been studying why people commit murder for...
Victoria Maamari
Feb 25, 20233 min read
Split-sentencing for seditious supporters
On Jan. 6, 2021, Verden Nalley and James Little arrived at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of others to...
Devin Iorio
Feb 25, 20233 min read
The foster care-to-prison pipeline: A road to incarceration
In 2020, the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the United States Department of Health and...
Jaxzia Perez
Feb 24, 20233 min read
Missing and murdered Indigenous women: A silent epidemic
TW: Violence and Trauma Connected to Racism and Racial Conflict In light of the recent coverage of the missing person’s case of Gabby...
Emily Moran
Feb 7, 20233 min read
'Some things cannot be fixed': Rikers Island and pretrial detention
Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested and incarcerated. He was held in solitary confinement for almost two years out...
Sarah Pape
Dec 23, 20224 min read
The Supreme Court's opportunity to formally expand Brady
TW: sexual violence, child abuse On Aug. 26, 2022, Troy Mansfield’s attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the...

Kayla Ollendorff
Nov 10, 20223 min read
Creating a “clean slate” for formerly convicted persons
On April 27 and 28, 2021, Sen. Robert (Bob) Casey (D-PA), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Rep. Lisa Rochester (D-DE) and Rep. Guy Reschenthaler...
Brianna Long
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Podcasts: The newest tool in a detective’s arsenal?
When investigative journalist Sarah Koenig began her podcast in 2014, she wanted to tell the story of Adnan Syed, a man sentenced to life...
Felicia Sych
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings
In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...
Kirsten Rowe
Jul 24, 20223 min read
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