The superpredator theory’s author later publicly regretted it

Evidence

“If I knew then what I know now”: Elizabeth Becker, “As Ex-Theorist on Young ‘Superpredators,’ Bush Aide Regrets,” New York Times, February 9, 2001. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 695

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• SHARE: A detail about a specific regretful author of the superpredator theory that would resonate with someone studying criminal justice policy.
• XREF: connects to: A founder of social constructivism publicly regretted that his ideas aided right-wing climate denial — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 285; The superpredator panic that drove mass incarceration was false but irreparable — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 212; The superpredator prediction was wrong yet its social costs proved permanent. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 214
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A founder of social constructivism publicly regretted that his ideas aided right-wing climate denial — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 285; The superpredator panic that drove mass incarceration was false but irreparable — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 212; The superpredator prediction was wrong yet its social costs proved permanent. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 214