Matt DeLisi and Matt Logan publish a new book, ‘Criminal Näiveté’

Why do politicians, journalists, activists, academics, and even criminal justice professionals keep championing policies and narratives that demonstrably increase crime and victimization?

The answer is criminal naïveté: a pervasive belief system that mischaracterizes offenders as romanticized victims while casting the justice system and society itself as the real villains. In this provocative new book, criminologists Matt DeLisi and Matt Logan dismantle the ideology that has captured elite discourse and turned the moral order upside down.