Special Report
Can Americans Keep Their Guns Safe?
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In part two of a Special Report, TCR’s Cassie Chew interviews legislators, advocates and parents, including gun owners, who are mobilizing for stricter firearm storage laws.
Special Report
Mental Illness and the Justice System
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To what extent should those who suffer from extreme mental illness be held accountable for criminal behavior, and what consequences should they face? Medical and legal experts propose more humane strategies for dealing with justice-involved mentally troubled individuals in a TCR special report.
TCR Special Reports
The Biggest Crop in Prison Gardens: Hope
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An innovative program offered in 11 California prisons as well as facilities in Indiana and Ohio offers incarcerees the chance to train as professional horticulturalists and landscapers. In a special report, TCR writer Eva Herscowitz talks to proponents who say it can offer an alternative approach to traditional models of incarceration.
At the Crossroads
America’s Rocky Road to Justice-Informed Policing
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The George Floyd killing forced white Americans to confront awkward truths about racial disparities in the justice system, and the police role in enforcing those disparities. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s “At the Crossroads” series of interviews, criminologist and former prosecutor Kami Chavis argues the entire police “ecosystem” needs reform―starting at the local level.
TCR Special Reports
Children and Guns: Holding Parents Accountable
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The charges filed against James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of a Michigan teen who allegedly shot dead four of his high school classmates, could bring greater national attention to weaknesses in federal and state laws regulating firearm storage and minors’ access to guns, a TCR Special Report found.
International Crime
The Perils of Policing in Pakistan
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American and British experts are quietly helping Pakistan modernize a weak and corrupt justice system. But it needs to be a bigger priority for Western policymakers hoping to achieve regional stability, writes a former UK senior police official.
At the Crossroads
Can We Build an ‘Infrastructure’ for Violence Prevention?
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The small number of individuals involved in shootings within any given community are connected by a web of social relationships in which violence follows the same predictable pathways as any pathogen, suggests Chicago criminologist Andrew Papachristos. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation “Crossroads” interviews, he explains how that research finding can inform efforts to reduce gun violence.
TCR Special Reports
Is It Time to Rethink the ‘American Way of Punishment’?
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America’s harsh sentencing policies over the past three decades have condemned individuals to lengthy prison terms that offer little opportunity for rehabilitation, fail to provide them with a path for a successful return to civilian life, and have little impact on public safety, a webinar was told this month.
TCR Special Reports
When Your Criminal Case Is Dropped, But Your Mugshot Lives Forever
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Over a year ago, Phoenix writer Julie Levitch was arrested and booked on a charge that was later dismissed, but her police mugshot remains online. She has been fighting ever since to have it removed.
TCR Special Reports
Ghouls on the Internet: The Booming Online Trade in ‘Murderabilia’
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Long after a murder is solved and the killer is behind bars, hardcore True Crime aficionados are getting vicarious thrills by bidding for souvenirs of the crime. Efforts to curb the macabre trade have been unsuccessful.