Mediation can provide a crucial, timely and constructive way to resolve conflict before matters escalate into violence or protracted litigation. Mediation, facilitated by an impartial third party, ...

An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the ...

Criminology has long been concerned with crime, law, and social control, while psychology has focused on individual cognition ...

The work of keeping communities safe often comes at a personal cost, one carried quietly by those tasked with leading in moments of crisis.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the president of the Law Society of England and Wales The shocking backlogs in the criminal ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. These intensified ...

Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent ...

Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing threats worldwide, and a new undergraduate degree at the University of South Florida will prepare students to not only prevent it, but to also fight back.

Crime rates in the U.S. fell in 2025. Murders in particular fell dramatically. That is a major takeaway among criminal justice experts as we approach the year's end. Crime rates in the U.S. fell ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on ...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation’s primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime and crime control and the administration of justice and ...