Thinking about crime -- again

When watching the cycle of rising crime brought on by the amnesia of the left, it is time to dust off James Q. Wilson’s influential 1975 book Thinking About Crime. I read it in college, and then relied on it in graduate school a few years later, and it could be easily republished today by simply updating the statistics. One reason Wilson’s book was so influential is that, rare for academics, he wrote about social science in plain English.

There are countless passages in the book that are spot-on for today’s urban liberal delusions.