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  • American Punishment

    New York Times Book Review, Mar 12 — *An American Summer* is a powerful indictment of a city and a nation that have failed to protect their most vulnerable residents, or to register the depth of their pain. It is also a case study in the constraints of a purely narrative approach to the problems of inequality and social suffering.

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  • The Other Side of “Breaking Windows”

    The New Yorker, Aug 24 — Place-based interventions are far more likely to succeed than people-based ones. What if vacant property received the attention that, for decades, has been showered on petty crime?

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