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Is our criminal justice system broken, and can it be fixed? Jennifer Doleac is an economist, the executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, and the host of the Probable Causation podcast. Today she discusses her new book, The Science of Second Chances: A Rev ...  Show more

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and best-selling author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In 2019, he went viral for his takedown of billionaires at the World Economic Forum and for a heated exchange with Tucker Carlson. Today, he joins the show to disc ...  Show more

Aside from Martyn Blake, only three other armed police officers have stood trial for murder. We speak to one of them.

The news of firearms officer Martyn Blake's acquittal in the Chris Kaba murder trial has sparked a national debate - not just about how and why the C ...

One of the defining characteristics of the modern nation state is that the state has a monopoly on the use of force. In the United States, police officers are a manifestation of this agreement, to which we are all parties--whether we like it or not--and that is perhaps one rea ...

Officer Kevin Donaldson faces 20 individuals with criminal records to discuss and defend four critical claims: that police use lethal force only as a last resort, most officers are selfless and honorable, racial profiling of Black and Brown people is not a widespread issue, and t ...  Show more

Shahid Amin was serving a long sentence in HMP Grendon when he began studying criminology. This came after teenage years in which being engaged with the police and the criminal justice system overshadowed any early experiences with education. He has continued his further educatio ...  Show more