The increasingly popular practice of pre-employment checking for criminal convictions is an issue of concern given the large number of individuals who have some form of criminal record. This article provides an overview and comparison of Australian and New Zealand anti-discrimination, privacy...

This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States – a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal scholars, social scientists, and historians. Adopting a comparative framework by focusing on the United States and France (the last Western European...

This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between other countries. But the estimated models predict only...