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Have We Been Wrong About ‘Psychopaths’?

In a new book, Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen questions how courts and prisons use psychopathy diagnoses — and whether they should at all.

Q&A • 06.16.2025

Discredited Hair Analysis Is Fueling Efforts to Overturn Convictions

Rapper Common talks about his work bringing music into prisons, and incarcerated people fight their convictions from debunked forensic science.

Inside Story • 10.03.2024

Old-School Hair Analysis Is Junk Science. But It Still Keeps People Behind Bars

The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to juries — or some judges.

Feature • 12.15.2023

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