I teach my 1Ls on Day 2 of law school that "I want my lawyer" is the most important phrase in law.

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2. "Violence is a phase, not a state. People age into and age out of bad behavior."

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John Pfaff
@JohnFPfaff

Professor, Fordham Law School. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian--the data is. Author of Locked In, now available!

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Absolutely not. Violence is a phase, not a state. People age into and age out of bad behavior. Dismissing people as “bad guys” is easy, but that’s an attitude we had to overcome to move past our mass punishment era that just writes ppl off.

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Does his continuing adamant denial impact your position? His at least tacit participation in the smear campaign gearing up against Dr. Ford concerns me as well. I notice he did nothing to discourage the dogs of war.

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Absolutely—like I said, we can and SHOULD judge him by how he handles this now. That tells us abt the now, and is def highly relevant.

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He is a man raised with deep privilege and it appears that privilege has allowed him in many ways to avoid consequences of his actions. That permeates his writing and his life. I agree that is very relevant to his "now."

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It is difficult, I admit, to give Kavanaugh, a man whose opinions show such disdain for those without his advantages the same consideration I try to give to kids locked up by the unjust system he so strongly supports. But I will try.

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