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Taking Crap to Court
The ponderousness, and consequent unnecessary expense, of many legal processes was brought home to me yet again with my recent appearance as an expert witness in the hallowed halls of the Royal Courts...
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The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed
The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or...
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The Internet Black Widow
Every now and then a curious criminal case emerges that gathers front-page interest like a snowball rolling downhill gathers snow and grit. You can tell when this is happening when some journalist...
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Do Adult Drug Courts Produce Other Psychosocial Benefits?
Although by no means a household word, “drug courts” have been among the most studied criminal justice interventions of the past two decades. So what are these courts, and why do they matter? Drug...
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The Myths of Offender Profiling.
Sura Nualpradid OK, the time has come to write about the bugbear of my life, ‘Offender Profiling’. Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to...
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Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?
At least two empirical papers have found that Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws like the one in Florida are associated with an average increase rather than a decrease in firearm homicides. This plausibly...
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Keeping an Eagle-Eye on the U.S. Supreme Court
[Ed. note – This originally appeared February 22, 2018.] After journalism won in a battle between possible careers in reporting or litigating in his youth, Kenneth Jost has covered legal affairs as a...
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