Posts Tagged ‘crime’

February 27th, 2013

Glenn Loury and I discuss stuff at Bloggingheads

by Harold Pollack
Category: Uncategorized

We hit on gun policy, terrible journalism about Chicago crime, why I harbor some human sympathy for George Zimmerman, and why Tom Wolfe would have been such a superb observer of the urban scene–if only he weren’t such a horrible novelist.

Posted: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
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February 23rd, 2013

How not to write about Chicago’s crime problem

by Harold Pollack
Category: Uncategorized

An unsympathetic outsider visits the Windy City.

Posted: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at 9:26 am
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November 2nd, 2011

Concerning replication

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Uncategorized

Heraclitus said that no one can step twice into the same river. By the same token, it isn’t really possible to do the same program in two different places.

Posted: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 3:56 pm
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October 30th, 2011

Calling b.s. on UN drug numbers

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics

Alejandro Hope shreds the latest drug numbers invented by the UN.

Posted: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 2:30 am
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July 28th, 2011

Blinding-flash-of-the-obvious Dep’t: Crime and social capital

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Crime Control, Economics, Microeconomics and policy analysis

An individual’s criminal history, criminal habits, or criminal associates constitute negative personal social capital.
The overall level of criminal activity by, against, or (especially) within a group constitutes negative collective social capital

Posted: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
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