Professor Edna Erez and I have a new article supporting victim impact statements. It is entitled "How Victim Impact Statements Promote Justice: Evidence from the Content of Statements Delivered in ...

The surviving roommates who lived with the four murdered University of Idaho students shared impact statements at the sentencing hearing for Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to the 2022 killings.

Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion rights pushed back Wednesday against the state’s arguments in a Florida Supreme Court case about the validity of a revised “financial ...

Emotions are running high in the courtroom as families deliver gut-wrenching victim impact statements during week three of the sentencing trial for the confessed Parkland shooter. As the jury is ...

For years, the focus was on a man and the horrible things he did to a little girl named Cherish. Just about anyone who has lived in the Jacksonville area since 2013 knows the names Donald Smith and ...

Businesses use impact statements to communicate how their operational activities make a difference. Many organizations wish to create the perception that they have a genuine interest in the well being ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Richard Allen, the man convicted of murder in the 2017 Delphi murders case, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday. The family of Liberty “Libby” German, one of the two ...

More states are trying to assess the racial impact of new laws, as the consciousness of many legislators has been raised by the murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic ...

— -- CHARLOTTE, Mich. -- Prosecutors say 256 women or girls have now reported to law enforcement that they were abused by convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar. Public knowledge about the scope ...