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Crime and the Election

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

More Prisoners, Less Crime: George Will has this column in Sunday's WashPost on the conspicuous absence of crime from the current political campaign. "Listening to political talk requires a third ear that hears what is not said. Today's near silence about crime probably is evidence of social improvement." The irony is that the very success of getting tough on crime, thereby reducing crime rates, is what has pushed the issue to the back burner. Will quotes Heather MacDonald and James Q. Wilson refuting some of the pervasive myths. Doug Berman at SL&P has this hostile post on the column. He says Will does not "take a serious look," that he "simply echos pro-imprisonment researchers," and he "attack liberals for questioning the extreme US incarceration rate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).