ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an article that discusses the riots which had recently occurred in Detroit and New York. It reviews some of the William Edward Burghardt Du Bois important thoughts on crime and various social justice concerns as editor of The Crisis. In 1913 Du Bois served as co-editor of the 18th Annual Conference for the Study of Negro Problems, which produced the publication, Morals and Manners among Negro Americans. Du Bois makes the argument that the Ku Klux Klan's strategy is to use fear to cast out their collective fear of African Americans. Du Bois and Augustus Dill provide a chart summarizing the distribution of major offenses in the United States and illustrate that most of the major offenses take place in the South. In addressing the issue of racial discrimination against African Americans, Du Bois makes the first and apparently the only self-identification as a criminologist.
