Former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon is coming to La Crosse in September to keynote a symposium on the criminal justice system. "Crime & Punishment on Trial: Community Values & the Criminal Justice System" ...

In a justice system where safety is paramount, the debate between progressive prosecutors and their law-and-order counterparts rages on. With divergent approaches to crime, each camp champions its ...

“Crime is a fine thing, both in history and in poetry, both on canvas and in marble,” wrote the cheerfully perverse Diderot. (The crime he was referring to was Christianity.) And likewise on the stage ...

Public attitudes towards punishment have been a key area of research in criminology. Criminologists are interested in the attitudes of the general public towards the punishment of those who have ...