A collection of 109 posts
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne.
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing.
Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth more than ideology.
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities.
Whoever becomes the next Archbishop of Canterbury will face the arduous task of uniting the now-radicalised wings of the Church of England.
Dostoevsky, Alice Munro, and the nature of fiction—what does our inability to forgive do to our ability to confess?
Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.