A constant influx of crime drama and trials often floods the national conversation. Some cases grip the public’s attention and leave a lasting mark on society. And we are in for a particularly busy ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

“We got here through nearly 600 years of editorial choices, in one story after the other, from the birth of the printing press to today.” We know the beats before we hear them. The crime stories that ...

NPR rarely covers crime. That's because crime is mostly local and rarely of consequence to a national audience. But when the president of the United States ordered military troops to patrol the nation ...

Back in 2020, Nieman Lab published “Defund the Crime Beat” as part of our annual predictions series, in which we ask some of the best and brightest people in media and journalism what they think the ...

A media figure publicly named a family member as a “prime suspect” in the disappearance of an 84-year-old woman. Law enforcement said no suspect existed. The sheriff called the reporting irresponsible ...

To allow readers to watch the Robert Telles trial as if they were in the courtroom, the Review-Journal is partnering with the Law&Crime Network. Review-Journal readers will have access to live ...

A spatial analysis of crime in Chicago suggests that certain environmental and socioeconomic factors, such as building density, are linked with crime rates, but these relationships differ between ...