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Audio Resources

• Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual?
• Can I Just Tell You?
• Some Judges Prefer Public Shaming to Prison
  U.S. prisons are costly and overcrowded. Are punishments like shoveling manure or standing on a busy street corner wearing a sign advertising your crime reasonable alternatives? Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, and Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, join NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the pros and cons of public shaming.

Video Resources

• Crime and Punishment…Tony Robinson
  In a four-part series, Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating and sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws and what we do to people when they break them. From trials by boiling water, through the decapitation of a king, to the emergence of our modern democracy, it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago and remains unfinished today.
   
• Restorative Justice in Victims Services
  After her daughter was brutally murdered in 2003, Wendy Cohen turned to Restorative Justice for answers and peace.
   
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?  Episode 1
  Part 2: The Case for Cannibalism
   
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?  Episode 9
  Part 2: What’s the Purpose?

Web Resources

• The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) (The Lifeboat Case)