In the criminal justice system, incarceration is often seen as being justified by the desert of offenders: because they are guilty—morally, and not merely legally, guilty—we can impose significant ...

Last week, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal inmates. The administration bragged that it was the largest single-day granting of clemency in American history. But a ...

In How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired, I explore how easily our trust in others can be distorted and what that can mean for our interpersonal and work ...

The aim of criminal law is the punishment of the convicted offender. But one may ask what the aim of punishment is? Generally speaking, there are five different reasons why punishment is meted out to ...