Crime and Punishment

Demjanjuk's Just Epitaph

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Crime and Punishment, Sobibor, Justice, Germany, Demjanjuk, Nazi War Crimes, U.S. Justice, Israel, Holocaust, Nazi War Criminals, Trawniki, World News
Tom Teicholz

The recent death of John Demjanjuk, 91, in a nursing home in Germany, brings to a close one of the most extensive and most contested Nazi war crimes prosecution in history.

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Is It Just Another Tuesday?

Sonja Sohn | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Evan Miller, US Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Kuntrell Jackson, Youth Offenders, Juvenile Offenders, Rewired for Change, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Prisons, Jail, Juvenile Justice System, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Juvenile Justice, Sonja Sohn, Crime News
Sonja Sohn

Today the Supreme Court hears the cases of two young men who were sentenced to die in prison as 14-year-old children. The Court should find that young people sentenced to life without parole as children cannot be deemed beyond hope of rehabilitation. Kids can, and do, change.

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Will Write for Food

Jeff Klima | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Books, Novels, Reading, Fantasy, Books News
Jeff Klima

Is it possible to sue someone on the basis of copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property if they have been dead for 131 years? I just g...

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Jail Or Church? Offenders In Alabama Town Can Choose

AP | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Alabama Crime, Strange Punishments, Bay Minette Alabama, Crime and Punishment, Video, Bay Minette Jail, Church or Jail Alabama, Bay Minette, Bay Minette Church, Alabama Jail, Religion News

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A civil liberties group said Friday that an Alabama town should not start an alternative sentencing program that would give non-v...

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A Pound Of Flesh: Extraordinary Literary Debts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: David Graeber, Debt, Crime and Punishment, Canterbury Tales, Literary Debt, Merchant of Venice, Charles Dickens, Faust, Shakespeare, History of Debt, Chaucer, Books News

Today marks the release of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In this red-bound tome, Graeber explains the concept of debt and c...

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Sidney Lumet: The Prince of New York City

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Dog Day Afternoon, Reality TV, Symphony Space, Yiddish Theater, Serpico, Sidney Lumet Dead, The Pawnbroker, French New Wave, Forum on Law, Prince of the City, Network, Culture & Society, Sidney Lumet, Lower East Side, Crime and Punishment, Best Sidney Lumet Movies, The Blacklist, Brook Shields, Daniel Anker, 12 Angry Men, 92nd Street Y, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

Sidney Lumet was a quintessential New Yorker -- street smart with a bleeding heart and a head full of immigrant, everyman voices.

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Great Books Don't Have To Be Bad Movies

The Guardian | Jonathan Coe | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Authors, Alfred Hitchcock, Crime and Punishment, Book Adaptation, Movie Adaptations, The Guardian, Jonathan Coe, Bonfire of the Vanities, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pride and Prejudice, Books News

In the course of their famous book-length interview, François Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation, and Hit...

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Dostoevsky Darkens The Moscow Subway

NPR | David Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Authors, Ivan Nikolayev, Subway Art, Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Moscow, Russian Literature, The Idiot, Books News

The Dostoevskaya station -- which opened this summer in memory of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky -- met a fair share of opposition when psychologist...

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The Power of Books in Prison

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prison Writing, Writers, Reading, Viktor Frankl, Authors, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Reading in Prison, Books, Stephen Jay Gould, Jail, Montaigne, Books News
Kenneth Hartman

The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.

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