From ancient dungeons to modern penitentiaries, the history of prison systems reflects changing ideas about crime, punishment, and rehabilitation. This video provides a complete overview of how ...

This video examines the historical practice of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, a punishment used for treason in medieval England. The process involved multiple stages designed to maximize ...

A Belgian court ruling on March 17 has paved the way for the last surviving former Belgian official, Étienne Davignon, to ...

Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 ...

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

Questions have been asked about how far-right activist Tommy Robinson was able to travel to the US and visit the State Department despite being banned from the country after a 2012 attempt to enter ...

Namibia might not be well known in many parts of the world. But the arid southern African country has an extraordinary history. Rich in indigenous cultural diversity, Namibians lived for more than a ...