Throwing “Paper Stones”: Argentina’s Institutional Collapse …institutional means that enable the people to express their demands and control their representatives. Neither public discourse nor legal and political theory paid sufficient attention to this absence of institutional…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 …honor and the possible loss of power in Parliament. Palmerston’s government recognized that failure to act with honor generated public outrage in the form of petitions to parliament and loss…
Torture, Taxes, and the Colonial State in Madras, c. 1800–1858 For over a century and a half, the publication of the Madras Torture Report remained the singular instance of a metropolitan state openly acknowledging the use of illegal violence by…
Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1912–1949 …to respond to it led Chinese men and women to seek to obtain their own weapons. This demand was fueled by the gun’s powerful symbolism in public culture and social…
Grassroots Peace: Postconflict Reconstruction in Rural Colombia …demine public spaces, rebuild basic infrastructure, and exhume the bodies of the disappeared. Meanwhile, other neighboring villages did not organize their communities to rebuild infrastructure and guarantee common security. This…
Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …of Bologna, the Tribunale del Torrone, prosecuted homicides as capital crimes through the deployment of inquisitorial process and a public image of impartial justice, but it remained unable to overcome deep…
Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting …genital cutting incited passionate Western responses and desires to end the practice, African efforts to end cutting were largely disregarded. For many decades, public and scholarly debates about cutting proceeded…
Desistance from Sexual Offending Across the Life Course …inevitable recidivism (Willis, Levenson & Ward, 2010). There is a persistent belief among many practitioners, policymakers, and members of the public that sex offenders seldom, if ever, stop and that…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. There are two distinctions that are crucial in the psychology of aggression and violence….
At the Crossroads …be forgotten? At the Crossroads, 2021-2022, a year-long series by criminal justice expert and HFG Distinguished Fellow of Practice Greg Berman, examined these questions to foster a public conversation about…
