Crime

The author discusses her story “Hostel.”

With smuggled cell phones and a handful of accomplices, Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., took money from large bank accounts and bought houses, cars, clothes, and gold.

For nearly two decades, Washington, D.C., had been carefully revising its criminal code. It took a month to blow it all up.

Jay Caspian Kang discusses how the killing of Bob Lee exacerbated tensions in San Francisco over crime and prosecution.

Amid a murder crisis in America, community-based solutions have received a flood of funding. How effective are they?

In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an élite family offered a feeling of impunity. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraud—and then kill his wife and son?

Trevell Coleman killed a man in 1993. More than a decade later, he turned himself in—has he been punished enough?

There’s a crime-ridden neighborhood called Bushwick, where permanently sick-looking people in their twenties live in dirty warehouses.

Nationwide, Republicans are portraying Democratics as soft on crime. It’s a well-worn strategy, but can a candidate for governor of Illinois win by calling Chicago a “hellhole”?

Aubrey Plaza stars in a surface-level début about the world of credit-card crime.

In a retrial, prosecutors made a persuasive case that Joshua Schulte had leaked hacking tools as an act of petty revenge against agency colleagues.

The RICO Act, which was designed to go after the Mafia, is now used to target supposed members of predominantly Black street gangs. Critics say the law is being stretched very thin.

What the recall of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s district attorney, can tell us about the state of criminal-justice reform.

Helena, from Vail, says, “Money can’t buy you class, but it can post bail.”

Patrick Radden Keefe talks about the largest leak in the agency’s history, and what to expect from the new trial of the former C.I.A. hacker Joshua Schulte.

The HBO series, a dramatization of the famous 2004 documentary, makes tantalizing equivalences between the filmmaking process and the justice system.

Does the district attorney’s recall reveal the limitations of progressive criminal-justice reform?

Eric Lach talks about his recent reporting at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station, in Queens.

A murder at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station in Queens has exposed many of the problems facing the city’s transit system.

She became infamous for her involvement in acts of political violence. Then she found her way out of the abyss.