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Criminal Justice

Vox's coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.

What bullets do to kids

By Marin Cogan March 29

What we know about the Nashville school shooting

By Li Zhou March 29

Conservatives are using the tragedy in Nashville to push their anti-trans agenda

By Li Zhou March 29

What an assault weapons ban could — and couldn’t — do to end US mass shootings

By Nicole Narea March 28

America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained

By Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and 1 more March 27

Would Trump’s indictment help or hurt his 2024 campaign?

By Nicole Narea March 25

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

By Marina Bolotnikova March 21

The Chicago mayor’s race shows Democrats still have a crime problem

By Christian Paz March 1

Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police.

By Marin Cogan February 28

Mexico’s top cop is on trial along with the war on drugs

By Haleema Shah February 22

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more February 17

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

By Fabiola Cineas February 15

New York’s restrictive gun laws didn’t stop the Buffalo shooter

By Nicole Narea February 15

6 Updates

Biden’s State of the Union 2023: Full coverage and highlights

By Vox Staff February 7

It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

By Ian Millhiser February 2

What do we want police body cams to do?

By Rachel M. Cohen February 2

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

By Aja Romano January 31

4 Updates

What we know about the killing of Tyre Nichols

By Vox Staff January 30

Lawmakers won’t compromise on police reform. Will Tyre Nichols’s killing change that?

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou January 30

Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for the government to kill people

By Ian Millhiser January 30

What we learned from the Tyre Nichols video

By Ellen Ioanes January 28

Asian Americans are reeling from California’s back-to-back mass shootings

By Li Zhou January 26

Why older mass shooters like the California gunmen are so rare

By Nicole Narea January 25

Why California’s strict gun control laws didn’t stop the Monterey Park shooter

By Nicole Narea January 23

The horrifying revelations of the Idaho student murders

By Aja Romano January 18

Why a special counsel is looking into Biden’s classified documents

By Nicole Narea January 12

The legal loophole that could arm mass shooters with makeshift automatic rifles

By Ian Millhiser January 10

How Democrats mostly neutralized Republican attacks on crime in the midterms

By Nicole Narea December 23, 2022

America’s Trumpiest court doesn’t care if your right to a fair trial was violated

By Ian Millhiser December 20, 2022

The very human, very troubling stories we tell ourselves about crime

By Alissa Wilkinson November 24, 2022

Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ club kills 5, injures 25

By Ellen Ioanes November 20, 2022

An atmosphere of violence: Stochastic terror in American politics

By Ellen Ioanes November 5, 2022

Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?

By Peter Kafka October 19, 2022

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

The defense Democrats aren’t using against Republicans’ soft-on-crime attacks

By Nicole Narea October 18, 2022

Alex Jones’s lies have cost him $965 million in a second Sandy Hook trial

By Aja Romano October 12, 2022

Adnan Syed is free — and it only took years of criminal justice reform

By Aja Romano October 11, 2022

The FBI’s murder rate mystery

By Jeff Asher October 6, 2022

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

Ken Paxton keeps running. Will his legal issues ever catch up?

By Nicole Narea September 30, 2022

What do true crime series like Dahmer owe the victims?

By Aja Romano September 28, 2022

Riotsville, U.S.A. is a window onto the bizarre beginnings of police militarization

By Alissa Wilkinson September 27, 2022