In 1986, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Title II of ECPA, commonly known as the Stored Communications...

TW: Violence What pushes someone to take the life of another individual? Scholars have been studying why people commit murder for...

On Jan. 6, 2021, Verden Nalley and James Little arrived at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of others to...

In 2020, the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the United States Department of Health and...

TW: Violence and Trauma Connected to Racism and Racial Conflict In light of the recent coverage of the missing person’s case of Gabby...

Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested and incarcerated. He was held in solitary confinement for almost two years out...

TW: sexual violence, child abuse On Aug. 26, 2022, Troy Mansfield’s attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the...

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...

When investigative journalist Sarah Koenig began her podcast in 2014, she wanted to tell the story of Adnan Syed, a man sentenced to life...

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,...

Fingerprint analysis was first proposed for criminal identification in the 19th century and has since become an evidentiary staple of...

There are over 200,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States. Thousands of these women are pregnant. Many persons become...

The First Step Act, implemented on Dec. 21, 2018, required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “develop a risk needs assessment system to...

Though traditional notions of public safety have long regarded law enforcement as the only effective means of keeping communities safe,...

According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the...

Sports gambling is a market that has not always been legal, but that has not stopped sports bettors from placing bets on sporting events...

Crime is often a local issue, one handled by the community in which it occurs. Laws are mostly enforced by local or state police, and...

Maryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...

On Feb. 3, 2022, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed Blades v. Garland in the U.S. District Court for the...

On Oct. 28, 2021 after being injected with the first of a series of lethal injection drugs, John Marion Grant began to violently...