In August 1938, James Joseph “Jimmy” Hines, the Tammany Hall leader of the Eleventh Assembly District of Manhattan, became the subject of a media feeding frenzy. Hines was charged with being a paid protector of the illegal lottery ring operated by mobster...
In April of 1980, three men traveling in a car on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee fired shotgun blasts at four Black women waiting for a cab. A fifth women was hit by flying glass.
The driver and his two passengers were all members of the Ku Klux Klan...
Yale Law School’s Tom R. Tyler, whose research focuses on how people interact with and perceive legal authorities — especially the police — will travel to Sweden this month to receive the Stockholm Prize, the world’s highest honor in criminology.
The...