Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor argues in the following viewpoint that a study that purports to show that black youth offenders are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white youth offenders makes no such claim. He contends that the report used misleading language to state this conclusion which is not borne out by evidence, and most of the media accepted the claim as true without checking facts. Assertions of incarceration disparities are nothing more than media hype, he maintains. Taylor, president of the New Century Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C., writes frequently on crime.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What does the report actually say about black youth and incarceration, according to Taylor?
2. In Taylor’s opinion, why are blacks more likely to be imprisoned than...