Amin George Forji (Helsinki): The Correlation between Law and Behaviour as Pillar of Human Society. Thom Brooks (Newcastle): Punishment: Political, Not Moral and Autonomy, Freedom, and Punishment. Shima Baradaran and Frank McIntyre (BYU): Predicting Violence. From Merkourios: Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, a special issue on criminal justice and human rights. You will commit a crime in the future: Leon Neyfakh goes inside the new science of predicting violence. The art of the police report: Los Angeles cop Martinez writes “just the facts” and still tells one helluva story. A review of Governing Through Crime: How the War of Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear by Jonathan Simon. Simply changing the metaphors used to describe crime can alter what we think is the best way of tackling it. Government investment in prenatal and postnatal health care could help prevent violent behavior later in life, researcher says. Law enforcement facilitator: David Onek works to bring together stakeholders in the criminal justice system who often agree — usually without knowing they do. Does a murderer's crime-scene behaviour echo his criminal history? Life without parole: When you know you'll spend your whole life in prison. Criminals look different from noncriminals: Yes, once again, you can judge a book by its cover. Some states are looking to end policies that allow prisoners to accrue child-support debt while in prison and have most of their wages garnished when they get out — policies that drive many ex-prisoners to re-offend. Getting forensics right: The forensics system is finally getting some national attention, but reformers aren't addressing the real problem. The man who defined deviancy up: Why has crime dropped since James Q. Wilson wrote about "broken windows" in 1982?
