Jackson Toby is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, where he specialized in criminology, education policy, and juvenile delinquency. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on topics including hate-crime legislation and education dropout policy.
Why do white middle-class kids from seemingly normal families kill their classmates in suburban high schools like Columbine, Santana, and Granite Hills? How can these crimes be stopped? For answers, we should look to the schools where such crimes almost never happen -- bad inner-city schools. For…
DURING THE SECOND DEBATE between Al Gore and George W. Bush, Gore criticized Bush for failing to support a bill that would have toughened the Texas hate-crime law. That measure -- named after James Byrd Jr., a black man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas -- failed to pass. Bush defended the way…