Professor Edna Erez and I have a new article supporting victim impact statements. It is entitled "How Victim Impact Statements Promote Justice: Evidence from the Content of Statements Delivered in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The surviving roommates who lived with the four murdered University of Idaho students shared impact statements at the sentencing ...

Prior to 2020, as part of the overall resolution process for allegations of sexual misconduct, Title IX decision-makers were able to review holistic information from the parties, either at a hearing ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Richard Allen, the man convicted of murder in the 2017 Delphi murders case, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday. The family of Liberty “Libby” German, one of the two ...

Emotions are running high in the courtroom as families deliver gut-wrenching victim impact statements during week three of the sentencing trial for the confessed Parkland shooter. As the jury is ...

For years, the focus was on a man and the horrible things he did to a little girl named Cherish. Just about anyone who has lived in the Jacksonville area since 2013 knows the names Donald Smith and ...

The Federalist Society blogsite has an interesting post by James Scanlan on proposed legislation in New Jersey that would require racial and ethnic impact statements for any legislative measure that ...

More states are trying to assess the racial impact of new laws, as the consciousness of many legislators has been raised by the murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic ...

While dozens of cannabis dispensaries have continued popping up around the Capital Region, one facility in Chestertown has announced it will be closing down this August. The cannabis cultivation and ...

Victims of the Freeman school shooting and their families will begin giving impact statements in court next week ahead of shooter Caleb Sharpe’s sentencing. Sharpe, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated ...