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What Will a Science-Hostile President Mean for Justice Reform?
The prospects look bleak, unless Donald Trump backtracks from the 1980s-style “tough-on-crime” rhetoric that largely ignored contemporary evidence-based research. Any surviving reform efforts will be “piecemeal and modest,” predicts a leading criminologist.