David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

So my paper was making the rounds,
people were handing it to one another,
and some guy at the Oklahoma Criminal
Justice Research Consortium asked if he
could publish it. I said sure. He
published it. And for a long time, if you
Googled me, that was the first thing that
came up.”
4 In its simplest formation, Clear’s
thesis is as follows: “Cycling a large
number of young men from a particular
place through imprisonment, and then
returning them to that place, is not
healthy for the people who live in that
place.”
5 For example, under the law,
prosecutors can choose whether to ask