Can the physically disabled be protected from sexual abuse?
Research reveals that as many as 10 percent of abuse reports in 2009 were from children with disabilities
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 8:50 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, Child Welfare
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Antonin Scalia, civil libertarian?
The Supreme Court justice has forged an unlikely alliance with Sonia Sotomayor on matters of criminal procedure
Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 8:18 PM UTC 21Social The Crime Report, Crime, law
Can elder abuse be stopped?
"Elder abuse forensic centers” are pioneering a new multifaceted approach to combat the widely-ignored crime
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 8:30 PM UTCTechnology The Crime Report, Elder Abuse
Will prisons ever open up to journalists?
Too often, public officials have the final say on how much the public knows about what happens in America's jails
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 4:53 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, Prison
Re-inventing college for prisons
Two ex-inmates are trying to bring higher education to the incarcerated, one maximum security facility at a time
Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 5:00 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, Prison
Murder on the menu
In the exclusive Vidocq Society, law enforcement officials crack each other's toughest cases over a gourmet meal
Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 2:00 PM UTCLife Crime, Police, The Crime Report
Banned from voting booths: Ex-convicts
Despite government reforms, several states continue to disenfranchise former prisoners -- many of them men of color
Monday, Oct 22, 2012 9:06 PM UTCPolitics 2012 Elections, D.C., Washington
Navajos’ bad medicine
Medicine man Francis Nez is accused of sexually abusing members of his own family. He's not the first
Monday, Oct 8, 2012 6:15 PM UTCLife Navajos
Thirteen and locked up for life?
States are applying punishments to juveniles normally reserved for adult sex offenders -- with grave consequences
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012 8:27 PM UTCLife Juveniles, Prison, Incarceration
New York’s hidden crime wave
The city's crime rate continues to plummet -- except in its public parks
Monday, Sep 17, 2012 7:41 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, New York, Crime
Death penalty opponents’ unlikely allies
Across the country, family members of murder victims have come out against capital punishment
Monday, Aug 20, 2012 6:52 PM UTCLife The Crime Report
Girls in Gangs
Gang membership is up 40 percent from 2009, with sex trafficking playing a significant role in expansion
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 1:52 PM UTCPolitics The Crime Report, Poverty, Crime
Juvenile sentencing needs further reform
The Supreme Court's decision to ban mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder is not enough
Tuesday, Jul 3, 2012 2:34 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, Incarceration
Rethinking “tough on crime”
States across the country are reconsidering three-strikes laws, particularly for low-level drug crimes
Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 6:00 PM UTC 10Politics The Crime Report, Crime
‘Your dad’s in jail’
A tale of the ‘invisibles’
Tuesday, Jun 26, 2012 4:33 PM UTCLife The Crime Report, Crime, Children
Protecting Detroit’s kids
Can the Motor City save its youth from each other?
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 3:56 PM UTCPolitics The Crime Report
Neighborhood watch groups in the cross hairs
After the Trayvon Martin killing, neighborhood watch groups have come under renewed scrutiny
Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 3:05 PM UTCPolitics The Crime Report
Sent away
Laws that allow juvenile offenders to be tried as adults have condemned thousands of troubled youth to wasted lives
Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012 1:28 PM UTC 13Politics The Crime Report
Victims of the prosecution
Hundreds of cases of prosecutorial misconduct have been found in recent studies. But few lawyers are disciplined
Friday, Apr 27, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 10Politics The Crime Report
America’s expensive sex offenders
Ballooning costs are making states rethink laws that would keep these criminals in civil detention for life
Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 3:04 PM UTC 58News The Crime Report, Crime
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