What Becomes of Second Chances?
Does erring toward leniency for first-time criminals amount to wisdom or wishful thinking?
Jennifer Doleac
Jennifer Doleac is the executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy focused on evidence-based policy. Before that, she spent more than a decade as an economics professor at Texas A&M University and the University of Virginia. She also hosts the Probable Causation podcast on law, economics, and crime. She is the author of The Science of Second Chances.