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Apr 2024
1h 13m

Why Violent Crime is Up

ANDREW HEATON
About this episode

Jennifer Doleac is Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, a major funder of criminal justice research and reform in the United States. She joins to discuss trends in crime, causes and deterents of crime, and cheap or easy ways we can make the country safer. 

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