Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
First Jennifer and James Crumbley were charged; now it’s Colin Gray, father of the Apalachee school shooting suspect.
Apalachee High School in Georgia is the latest in a long list of school shootings. Here’s what experts say can help.
The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision will keep on creating chaos until it is overruled.
Calling Donald Trump a felon doesn’t hurt him — but it does do real damage to others.
It is important to hang onto grudges against the Supreme Court.
The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.
Donald Trump says crime is out of control. The facts say otherwise.
We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back.
Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
It’s the end of a drawn-out legal process, haunted by the failure of the war on terror.
The vice president’s days as a California prosecutor are difficult to define in clear ideological terms.
It adds to a long and disturbing pattern of police violence toward Black Americans.
Dozens of other democracies have short election cycles. Can the Democrats learn something from them?
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
The Trump assassination attempt and many other public crimes in America are committed by isolated young men.
The GOP is still pretending that crime is spiraling out of control.
While we can’t always predict public political violence, Vox spoke to four experts who can help us understand it.
Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here’s what happened.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important.
The Court’s Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
Crime is actually falling. Here are three theories on why that doesn’t seem to reassure voters.
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices’ own incompetence.
El Salvador has touted its tough-on-crime policies (and kept quiet on human rights issues). Now everyone wants to try.
But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
On a party line vote, the Court legalized “bump stocks,” which convert semiautomatic guns into fully automatic ones.
It’s hard to see how they’d do it legally, but this Court has a history of reading the law creatively.
If the federal government wants to uphold democracy and the rule of law, it can’t leave convicting Trump to the states.
Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence.
The show that helped free Adnan Syed completely upended how much the average person knows about US legal and prison systems.
Was Trump wrongly convicted? The debate, explained.
Even truly repulsive speakers have First Amendment rights.
A Texas man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 was pardoned yesterday. Here’s what it says about politics in 2024.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
Why are more and more older people spending their dying years behind bars?