Criminal behavior (and school misbehavior) is overwhelmingly a male phenomenon. Since 1960 the number of boys raised without fathers has grown along with welfare state policies that make fathers less relevant. The debaters ignore this and promote drug legalization and government interventions they assume will fix toxic American family culture that inculcates many boys. "Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymple describes English city life (pathological violence, drug use, fatherless boys, unemployment) among lower classes identical to ghetto culture in US cities. Yet these cultural patterns go unnoticed by political and media elites promoting government solutions with little empirical evidence of success. Government can't create healthy families, but unintended consequences of feel-good policies certainly incentivized family dysfunction.