By Alyce McGovern
With pressure on police to increase public confidence and reduce community concerns over crime, social media has emerged as a valuable tool for improving communication between organizations and their “customers” — the public.
By Ted Gest
Ted Gest, president of Criminal Justice Journalists and Washington Bureau Chief of The Crime Report, looks back on a decade of providing the Internet's only daily digest of important developments in criminal justice. It continues to reflect not only the economic challenges facing the nation’s criminal justice system, but the similar challenges to journalism itself.
By Alexa Capeloto
Put simply, the Journal News impersonated an untrained, unreflective data dumper, the kind I warn my digital-native journalism students about when I ask them, “Just because you can, does that mean you should?”
By Barry Krisberg
So how do Gov. Mitt Romney and Cong. Paul Ryan differ from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on critical crime issues? The answer is not so simple.
By Joshua Gerstein
As a reporter who has covered courts for more than two decades, it’s my distinct impression that nuts-and-bolts reporting on the courts has taken a huge hit in the current economic climate.
By Robin L. Barton
The story on Sandusky’s sentencing started on the front page of the New York Times print edition—and then continued in the sports section. Similarly, the Los Angeles Times’ website posted its coverage of Sandusky’s sentencing on its sports news section. The placement of these articles got me thinking, “Is this a sports story or a crime story? And does it really matter?”
By Margaret Colgate Love
“Felon” is an ugly label that confirms the debased status that accompanies conviction, says former pardon attorney Margaret Love. It identifies a person as belonging to a class outside many protections of the law, someone who can be freely discriminated against, someone who exists at the margins of society.
By Wendy J. Murphy
The language in media reporting on the Penn State scandal has been almost universally inappropriate, both in print and television coverage. The media are pervasively using inappropriate language to describe the harm done to Jerry Sandusky's victims.
By Robin L. Barton
To describe the recent U.S. and international media coverage of the Amanda Knox case in Italy as intense would be an understatement. One of the key criticisms of this coverage was that it primarily focused on the defendants—or at least one of them—with the victim, Meredith Kercher, almost forgotten.
By Robin L. Barton
On April 18, 2011, Crystal Mangum was indicted for murder...
May 24, 2013
But drug czar Gil Kerlikowske says the nation's anti-drug policy is shifting gradually towards treating addiction as a public health chal...
May 23, 2013
In a speech this afternoon, President Barack Obama defended drone strikes and announced a narrowed focus in America's fight against terro...
new & notable May 23, 2013
Pressure from the U.S. to crack down on drug crime has led to skyrocketing prison rates for low-level offenders in the South American cou...
May 22, 2013
Number of US jail inmates rises after 3 years of decline
May 21, 2013
The press has done an admirable job covering a Department of Defense report on sexual assault in the military. But how good of a job has ...
new & notable May 20, 2013
Researchers who studied 1,200 incidents of dating violence in New York found brief Orders of Protection and repeat abuse
May 17, 2013
A conference on gun violence raised questions about whether journalists are focusing on the wrong things
