From the monthly archives: March 2013
by Patrick H. Moore
The story of our criminal justice system in the past four decades is marked by public fear, political opportunism, and the failure of tough mandatory sentencing policies.
Forty-five years ago, the United States prison population was only a fraction of […]
American crime writer Jim Thompson wrote 24 crime novels in just over 20 years, beginning in the early 1950s. He had been writing since he was a teenager, sometimes getting paid as a newspaper and true crime journalist, and also as director of the […]
In a scenario that puts Mel Brooks’ classic The Producers to shame, a movie that was made as part of a scam to defraud the British government of millions of dollars has now won awards and could even end up turning a profit, although […]
“Honor among thieves,” a once powerful statement even among those of us with casual morals, may be no more than a dated, shopworn relic in today’s me-first world. Consider, for instance, the large percentage of federal criminal defendants who don’t hesitate to […]
