In Enoch City, it's important to bear witness to the fact that the system absolutely failed those innocent children and let them be murdered by the very man they had tried to warn the police about.
Tag: crime
Black men raping White women: BJS’s Table 42 problem
The BJS should not report extrapolations to the whole population from samples this small. They should clarify and correct these reports.
On the ropes (Goffman review)
I would be happy to see the volume come down in this discussion. But I do have some complaints.
Campus sexual assault op-ed
I have an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled, "College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not on Campus," and there's already a lively discussion in the comments. I would welcome your thoughts, on this site or that one.
Final proof there is no human tragedy Brad Wilcox will not exploit in order to promote marriage
I have to give credit to the overreaching headline writer for accurately capturing the basic message: Shame on you.
Getting beyond how the ‘Factual Feminist’ is wrong about the prevalence of rape
The one-in-five women lifetime prevalence of rape is a reasonable estimate. But that's not all.
Baloney data detective: Wilcox school shooters edition
9 school shootings, one crackpot theory, and religion dodges the bullet.
Is the rising tide of falling crime driven by fatherlessness?
If you are going to argue for a strong association, you should at least acknowledge that the problem you are trumpeting is getting better while the cause you are bemoaning is getting worse.
Who’s Afraid of Young Black Men?
Originally posted at TheAtlantic.com. How gender did (and didn't) affect the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial AP Images In conversation, I keep accidentally referring to Zimmerman's defense lawyers as "the prosecution." Not surprising, because the defense of George Zimmerman was only a defense in the technical sense of the law. Substantively, it was a prosecutionof…
Steubenbille, Ohio, USA
Is this what rape culture looks like?