Lying, that is. In this case he’s lying about whether he lied, trying to pass the blame onto one of his family members.
Author: Mike Maltz
Michael D. Maltz is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice and of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently an adjunct professor of sociology at the Ohio State University His formal training is in electrical engineering (BEE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1959; MS & PhD Stanford University, 1961, 1963), and he spent seven years in that field. He then joined the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (now National Institute of Justice), where he became a criminologist of sorts. After three years with NIJ, he spent thirty years at the University of Illinois at Chicago, during which time he was a part-time Visiting Fellow at the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. Maltz is the author of Recidivism, coauthor of Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting, and coeditor of Envisioning Criminology. View all posts by Mike Maltz
For those who are unfamiliar with John Lott, here are some previous posts about his activities: https://thesamefacts.com/michael-maltz-on-john-lott/, https://thesamefacts.com/the-ny-times-posted-a-lott-of-crap/ and, for Mark’s view, https://thesamefacts.com/lott-donohue-and-levitt/.