Victim Blaming Revisited Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape. Richard B. Felson 28 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian. Jukka Savolainen 29 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Extraordinary Destiny In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars. Phyllis Taylor 17 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Guilty and Insane Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility. Daniel Kriegman 29 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge. Razib Khan 29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read
When Journalism Blurs Into Activism—A Canadian Case Study Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail 3 May 2021 · 12 min read
When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings? Arthur Jeon 30 Apr 2021 · 13 min read
Growing Up Without a Father-Figure Can Make Boys Less Violent While there is likely a modest link between violent crime and single parenting, Faust and Manning are wrong about the benefits of a father-figure. Robert Cherry 19 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless. Edie Wyatt 7 Dec 2020 · 11 min read
L.A.'s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into a Prison I support helping the homeless—but with meaningful measures that have been proven to work, as opposed to policy that’s heavy on virtue signaling and ultimately short on humanitarian substance. Amy Alkon 23 Sep 2020 · 18 min read
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy. John McWhorter 11 Jun 2020 · 9 min read
America's Black Communities Are Suffering. Violent Protests Will Make the Suffering Worse All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes. Zaid Jilani 30 May 2020 · 8 min read
Canada's Treatment of Indigenous Peoples Was Cruel. But Calling It an Ongoing 'Genocide' Is Wrong The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes. David Mount 11 Jul 2019 · 19 min read
Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies. Ernest Nickels 11 Jul 2019 · 8 min read
Say It Ain’t So, Doc: How Should Martin Luther King Scholars Deal With the Rape Story? If the FBI tapes and transcripts are made public in 2027, we will need responsible historians to use them responsibly. They can’t be ignored, nor can the allegation that is now rocking the foundations of King’s moral legacy. Stephen Smith 28 Jun 2019 · 6 min read