Chris Uggen

And black prisoners receive even fewer visitors.

Rates of sexual violence in the United States, whether measured by arrest or victimization, have declined by over 50 percent over the last 20 years.

Achieving one of those results is hard enough. And recent experiments suggest we may not be able to have both even if we want to.

We need to stop spinning the research on mass shootings and acts of terror—the outliers—so that we can focus on more common and deadlier threats.