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Doing Time: “Unfair” Delays Lead to Harsher Sentences
Most people agree that the punishment should fit the crime, but procedural delays outside of defendants’ control may cause judges, case review boards, and other third parties to support more severe sentences.
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Up-and-Coming Voices: Bringing Science to Justice
Two researchers share their research related to criminal justice.
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America Goes About Juvenile Crime Sentencing All Wrong
“I helped a so-called friend commit armed robbery and murder back in 1994,” explained Ming Ho, a Michigan prison inmate who first wrote me in 2015 upon spotting a math error in one of my
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Humans Are Pretty Lousy Lie Detectors
Member/Author: Christiane Gelitz On television, it all looks so simple. For a fraction of a second, the suspect raises the corner of his mouth. He is happy because he thinks the investigators are wrong about
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Polaschek Receives Prestigious Appointment in New Zealand’s Queen’s Birthday Honours
APS Fellow Devon Leigh Logan Polaschek was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her contributions to criminal psychological science.
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Examining why false confessions occur in the U.S. criminal justice system
If you were under interrogation, would you confess to a crime you didn’t commit? It’s more common than you might think. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 27 percent of people in the registry
