At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Moskos, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and former cop, about what went wrong when a federal agent killed a nurse in Minneapolis.

President Donald Trump has taken credit for falling crime rates around the country, citing his immigration crackdown and deployment of the National Guard in cities across the U.S. since he began his ...

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that a victim restitution law represents a criminal punishment as it revived a challenge by a ...

One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ...

Kathleen Hartnett, the attorney for a transgender student-athlete, was unable to define what a woman is when questioned by Justice Samuel Alito during Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday over ...