Since mining courtroom footage for entertainment value is hardly new, Dick Wolf's documentary series "Crime & Punishment" -- the reality version of his omnipresent "Law & Order" franchise -- needs to ...

For the past five decades, the American criminal justice system has relied nearly exclusively on punishment as the mechanism for reducing crime and recidivism. The tough on crime era produced ...

In a justice system where safety is paramount, the debate between progressive prosecutors and their law-and-order counterparts rages on. With divergent approaches to crime, each camp champions its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about film, the arts, and design. Stephen Maing's feature-length documentary Crime + Punishment won a special jury award ...

The current trend of good cop, bad cop documentaries continues with Crime + Punishment, a film released on Hulu, focused on modern corruption in the New York City Police Department and the dozen ...