Legal System

What makes restitution work well in Japan is that private individuals and groups are much more responsible for controlling crime.

A truly effective criminal justice system would be built on restitution, not imprisonment and punishment. Moreover, government-funded prisons have no incentive to rehabilitate prisons since they receive funding regardless of outcomes.

Patrick Frey challenges Bob Murphy’s views on plea deals and AnCap society.

The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights prohibits trying a person twice for the same crime. But the federal government now routinely ignores this.

Let's set aside the politically tempting task of speculating about what might happen in the event of a No Deal Brexit, what can we say with certainty will happen?

While repealing laws and police reforms are important in alleviating mass incarceration, the problem is likely to continue as long as prosecutors are permitted to operate with so few constraints.

Bob Murphy and Hannah Cox discuss the State’s abuses in the criminal justice system.

Even if laws against slander and libel appear good in theory, in practice they are all too often used by the powerful to silence the weak. A respect for free speech demands defamation laws be kept very weak.

Those who are tasked with serving the public interest — but are protected by legal immunity — are well positioned to serve whatever interests they choose.

Federal criminal prosecutions ought to be abolished and left to the states. But until that happens, abolishing the federal death penalty is a good place to start.