Social Justice Treating Mental Illness Prevents Crime and Saves Us Money Giving psychiatric help to people who need it isn’t just the right thing for a society to do, it’s the most cost-effective thing, too. Lauren Kirchner
Social Justice Violent Crime Is Dropping: Why Are We So Scared? A majority of Americans continue to overestimate crime rates, even as crime levels drop across the country. Lauren Kirchner
Environment Brain-Scan Lie Detectors Just Don’t Work Perpetrators can suppress “crime memories,” study finds. Lauren Kirchner
Environment DNA Collection Is the New Fingerprinting What will it mean for crime suspects—and for victims? Lauren Kirchner