For decades now, America has been pursuing a deeply punitive anti-crime social policy: the criminal-punishment binge. It is what lies at the root of the heavy overrepresentation of blacks — and ...

From a letter sent by the Florida Department of Health General Counsel to a television station about this ad that supports Florida's Amendment 4: The Florida Department of Health has been notified ...

Restitution plays a big part of our criminal justice system. However, recent studies have shown the practice to be both unfair and not effective. Now the Supreme Court has weighed in. Restitution is ...

Tuesday’s argument in Ellingburg v. United States turned on whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. That clause bars imposing criminal ...

The aim of criminal law is the punishment of the convicted offender. But one may ask what the aim of punishment is? Generally speaking, there are five different reasons why punishment is meted out to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...