Lott Distorts the Argument
by Glenn Loury
The Conversation
March 24th, 2009
John Lott completely distorts my argument when saying that I favor a kind of “race-norming” of criminal punishment that would have blacks serving less time than whites when convicted of the same crime as whites. He quotes me selectively and out of context. Nowhere in my book, Race, Incarceration and American Values (MIT Press, 2008) do I advocate this. Lott is flailing at a straw man.
