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Attendance in kindergarten and elementary school robustly predicts student outcomes. Despite this well-documented association, there is…
In the years following the attacks of 9/11, the CIA adopted a program involving the capture, extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and…
This paper is an edited version of the Jerry Lee Lecture delivered at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium in 2018, the year in which…