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 ...

IN THE administration of the criminal law today, we desperately need all the help we can get from modern behavioral scientists, before trial, during trial, and after trial. The law by itself, without ...

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 ...

If there was one word to define the nature of the current U.S. prison system it would be "punishment." The U.S. prison system is often referred to as a system of retributive justice. The underlying ...

Donald Trump was recently indicted for his efforts to use fraud and coercion to overturn the result of the 2020 election and stay in power despite the fact that he had lost. The four counts in the ...

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 ...