The U.S. could choose to follow the lead of the United Kingdom, where all arrestees suspected of serious offenses are included in a DNA database. New research shows the approach would save 415 lives per year.

If you think a down economy causes crime to rise, think again. The reasons that drive crime rates are unclear.

When the United States experienced the great increase in crime that began in the early 1960′s and continued through the 1970′s, most Americans were inclined to attribute it to conditions unique to this country.

In a recent decision to bar states from imposing life sentences on juvenile offenders without the possibility of parole, the Supreme Court continued its trend of disregarding the Constitution and instead relying on foreign law and its own moral judgments.

A disturbing number of the veterans of Watergate seemed only too willing to exonerate Clinton for conduct that eerily resembled Nixon's.

John Lott is one of the nation’s most prolific and original policy economists, will join the research staff of the American Enterprise Institute as a resident scholar on September 1, AEI President Christopher DeMuth announced today.

Conrad Black has written an impressive and profound book about the the most embattled and tenacious of American presidents: Richard Nixon.

It is difficult to create and sustain a decent society when many of its members are former convicts.