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Byline: J. Tom Morgan Legal justification is not ethical or moral equivalency -- that is the first principle I teach in my ethics class to collegiate criminal justice majors. For [...]

Byline: J. Tom Morgan The Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and court system revealed a fact those of us familiar with the criminal justice system [...]

Byline: J. Tom Morgan Two states have legalized small amounts of marijuana possession. More than 30 states have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes. Recently, the New York Times editorial board [...]

Byline: J. Tom Morgan If we expect our children to respect the law, we need to create laws that hold them accountable while protecting their rights. For more than 40 [...]

Byline: J. Tom Morgan The U.S. Supreme Court rarely renders a decision that directly impacts minors, particularly one that significantly addresses the legal rights of minors in criminal proceedings. But [...]

Georgia's sex offender registry law is irreparably flawed. Its stated purpose is the protection of Georgia's children. Yet it does little, if anything, to protect children from sexual assault. It [...]

The question is not whether juveniles should be prosecuted as adults for violent crimes such as murder and armed robbery, but rather who should exercise the discretion in making such [...]

Prosecuting kids poses hard choices A recent Constitution editorial proclaimed that the 13-year-old boy charged with the murder of a 20-month-old in DeKalb County should be tried as a juvenile [...]