Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown in Moscow in March 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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The International Criminal Court announced an arrest warrant for Putin and his children’s rights commissioner in March 2023, alleging the illegal abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children.
We wanted to quantify what social factors increase a person’s chance of ending up in prison, and to use that to improve policy and reduce the harms and costs of incarceration.
People incarcerated at a county jail in North Dakota gather together.
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Experts still disagree about why the US prison population has grown so much over the last few decades. But crime is only one part of the problem.
Mexican soldiers stand guard near during the arrest of Joaquin Ovidio Guzman in Culiacan, Mexico, in January 2023.
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Mexico’s crime epidemic continues to worsen, as poverty and inequality also grow in the country.
Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, has said that a decision about charging Trump is imminent.
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Most prosecutors are elected in uncontested races across the country. But there are signs that the posts are becoming political hotbeds, placing more pressure on the criminal justice system.
Support for victims must include forms of restorative justice that allows them to have their voices heard.
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Sam Uffindell experienced a form of forgiveness after assaulting a younger schoolboy 22 years ago. But this should be the norm under NZ’s child justice system, which is overdue for reform.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the land.
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A cornerstone of the First Step Act, passed with bipartisan support, is the PATTERN risk-assessment tool.
Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery, listens as attorneys speak outside the Glynn County Courthouse on July 17, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia.
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The murder of Ahmaud Arbery exemplifies the racial, often violent barriers still remaining in the US. The 25-year-old Black man was out for a jog. But three white men thought he was a criminal.
Defense set to claim that the three men accused over death of unarmed Black man were trying to conduct a citizen’s arrest.
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Three men who pursued a black jogger who died of a shotgun wound in the confrontation claim they were trying to conduct a citizen’s arrest.
In 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, with his brother Tamerlan, put bombs along the Boston Marathon route, killing and injuring many.
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Punishment for crimes allows a society to express its values, but a theorist of criminal law and punishment argues it could also reinforce prejudicial stereotypes about racial and ethnic groups.
Some of the demands by prisoners in 1971’s Attica rebellion still resonate today.
The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still relevant to today’s incarcerated population.
Youth in New Mexico used their own experiences with arrest and incarceration to advocate for others.
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A youth group gives juvenile offenders a chance to advocate for change in the justice system.
When people are held in jail, they’re likely to accept quick release – even if it means admitting to something they didn’t do.
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The UN has twice called on Australia to dismantle its indefinite detention system for people with cognitive impairments and mental illness, which disproportionately affects Indigenous people.