An excellent book, now among many which deal with Left/Liberal bias and exclusion in the academy.
11-02-2017: I have all the wrong views.
The academic Criminology profession is overwhelmingly Democratic/Marxist, materialist, macro=sociological, and biased against those who recognize free will, religion, conservative or Republican views or affiliations, or biosocial causes. All of the authors below note that the social science departments are overwhelmingly Left or Democratic, and exclude those who are not. There are many books and articles supporting these assertions, and some are given below.
Those biases are against:
Conservatives/Republicans: Conservatives/Republicans today believe in personal responsibility, while liberals, Leftists, Democrats, Marxists, and the like blame poverty, location, race, society, class, white supremacy, Western civilization, and search for “root causes” for crime, rather than the actual people who commit crimes.
Wright, J.P., & DeLisi, M. (2016). Conservative Criminology. New York: Routledge
DeLisi, M., & Wright, JP. (2017). What criminologists don’t say and why. Summer 2017. City
Journal, Manhattan Institute
Shields, J.A., & Dunn, J.M. (2016). Passing on the Right: Conservatives professors in the
progressive university. Oxford University Press.
Religious believers:
Johnson, B. (2011). More God, less crime. West Conshohocken, PA.: Templeton Press. This excellent book warns academics to conceal their religion until they obtain tenure, or to despair of ever getting it.
Bio-sociologists:
DeLisi, M., & Beaver, K. (2014). (Editors). Criminological theory: A Life-course approach. (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. A strongly biosocial approach: Three chapters by DeLisi &/or Beaver (et al): (7) The heritability of common risk and protective factors to crime and delinquency; (15) Gangs and anti-social behavior: A critique and reformulation; (21) Never-desisters: a descriptive study of the life-course persistent offender. It is noted, e.g., that gangs are loosely formed, in part because criminals are defective in those qualities which make for good organizations. The introduction notes the academic bias against theories grounded in biology, in part because fear of racial findings, and that those who pursue this area risk a kiss of death to their academic careers.
Look also at the response to Herrnstein and Wilson’s On Human Nature, and Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve, or to Moynihan on The Negro Family. There is a strong PC and Academic taboo on exploring possible genetic differences even though no serious observer doubts that biology and genetics contributes to human behavior..
Micro-sociologists: Micro-sociologists are aware of the influences of biology/genetics, parents, peers, and society, which contribute to pre-dispositions and risks, but believe that criminals make their own decisions.
Actual criminal justice practitioners: People who are actual lawyers, prosecutors, police offices, corrections officials know criminals, and that they are persons who commit crimes out of selfishness and disregard for others, out of free will. The Anglo-American legal system is based on free will and responsibility, whereas academic and “scientists” believe in materialism and that all actions are “caused” by “root causes” such as class, poverty, location, race, oppression, white supremacy, capitalism, the West, America, and so on.
Other references
Blecker, R. (2013). The death of punishment. Searching for justice among the worst
of the worst. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Liberal rejection not only of the death penalty,
but also of any punishment besides deprivation of liberty.
Herrstein, & Murray, C. (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and class structure in American
Life. There is an entire literature of response to this book, much of it based on straw men and false assertions of what the authors stated. They addressed a taboo, looking at possible genetic differences, which aroused a huge antipathetic response.
"If the reader is now convinced that either the genetic or environmental explanation has won out to the exclusion of the other, we have not done a sufficiently good job of presenting one side or the other. It seems highly likely to us that both genes and environment have something to do with racial differences. What might the mix be? We are resolutely agnostic on that issue; as far as we can determine, the evidence does not yet justify an estimate."
MacIntyre, A. (2006). After virtue. A study in moral theory. (3rd Ed.). Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press. Especially Chapter 8: The character of generalizations
in social science and their lack of predictive power.
MacIntyre (1987). Whose justice? Whose rationality? University of Notre Dame Press.
Wilson, J.Q. and Herrnstein, R. (1998). Crime and human nature. The definitive study of the
causes of crime. New York: The Free Press.
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