Donald Trump was recently indicted for his efforts to use fraud and coercion to overturn the result of the 2020 election and stay in power despite the fact that he had lost. The four counts in the ...

Last week, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal inmates. The administration bragged that it was the largest single-day granting of clemency in American history. But a ...

In How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired, I explore how easily our trust in others can be distorted and what that can mean for our interpersonal and work ...

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

The Supreme Court has emphasised the utility of deterrent punishment in criminal cases, stating that such punishment ...

Attorney General William Barr announced last week that the federal government would resume the imposition of capital punishment, directing the Acting Director of the Bureau of Prisons to schedule ...

IN THE administration of the criminal law today, we desperately need all the help we can get from modern behavioral scientists, before trial, during trial, and after trial. The law by itself, without ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. During the 35 years since Gregg, and particularly in the past decade, many additional ...