Whites Commit More Crimes Than Blacks, FBI Says

Whether or not Bill Bennett’s offhand comment that aborting black babies would reduce the crime rate was racist, it was wrong. “[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down,” Bennett said on his radio program...

Bill Bennett’s Remark Criticized as Racist

Former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett refused to back down from comments widely criticized as racist. Bennett, a popular social commentator with the religious right, questioned accuracy of a study that suggested legal abortion had reduced the...

Children and Crime in American Culture

It was hardly a century ago that social activists launched a crusade to save children from the exploitation of industry. Children, some as young as 9 years old, were often forced to work 10 and 12 hour shifts in America’s factories and foundries. Even in rural...