How does a nation such as the U.S., which professes the Jeffersonian ideal of “equal and exact justice to all men,” balance the safety of society against the rights of the individual? In 1964, the ...

To “make a dollar,” Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while ...

Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...

MORE than thirty years ago, when Earl Warren was a career district attorney in California, he came to Washington to address a national conference on crime. His approach to crime control was ...

Criminal Confessions delves into the psychological showdown that transpires inside actual police interrogation rooms between investigators and suspects and dissects what it takes to yield a confession ...

I AM A computer criminal. I figure that it’s better to simply ‘fess up, come clean, and hope that the court, in its wisdom, will have mercy and recognize that it was an act of youthful impulse — I ...