Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
The GOP is still pretending that crime is spiraling out of control.
While we can’t always predict public political violence, Vox spoke to four experts who can help us understand it.
Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here’s what happened.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important.
The Court’s Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
Crime is actually falling. Here are three theories on why that doesn’t seem to reassure voters.
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices’ own incompetence.
El Salvador has touted its tough-on-crime policies (and kept quiet on human rights issues). Now everyone wants to try.
But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
On a party line vote, the Court legalized “bump stocks,” which convert semiautomatic guns into fully automatic ones.
It’s hard to see how they’d do it legally, but this Court has a history of reading the law creatively.
If the federal government wants to uphold democracy and the rule of law, it can’t leave convicting Trump to the states.
Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence.
The show that helped free Adnan Syed completely upended how much the average person knows about US legal and prison systems.
Was Trump wrongly convicted? The debate, explained.
Even truly repulsive speakers have First Amendment rights.
A Texas man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 was pardoned yesterday. Here’s what it says about politics in 2024.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
Why are more and more older people spending their dying years behind bars?
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead.
A potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses.
Last year, Detroit saw its fewest homicides since 1966. Here’s how it did it — and how other cities can do the same.
Crime rates are falling. Why are lawmakers passing tough-on-crime bills?
The fight over “ghost guns” is back before the justices.
This case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more.
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.
The Michigan school shooter begged for help. His parents laughed it off.
Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over.
The Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s.
Six former police officers tortured two Black men. They’re getting sentenced this week.
Four years ago, the state decriminalized all drugs. Now it’s trying to course-correct — and might make a mistake in the process.
As the National Guard heads into subways, new research examines how the city is faring with gun violence.
No one is coming to save US democracy, except for ourselves.
This is the second major victory the Supreme Court handed Trump in less than one week.