Sunday, January 15, 2012

myths about crime

Here's another book I can recommend. (I'd like to read it.)
I often comment on the unnatural fear of crime in the USA--and, yes, I do believe the USA
has more crime than Slovakia, or Austria.

But I think the explanation is economic inequality and a fundamentally unjust society.
Citizens of the USA, as individuals, are not somehow worse than those of Slovakia or Austria.

But here's a sociologist who has bothered to document the ways in which this fear has been created:

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