Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman grew up in Baltimore, but the city didn’t get him hooked on crime policy. “Ask any criminologist, and the best predictor of whether a kid will get into drugs is if older people he respects get him into them. It’s about bad companions,” Kleiman, a UCLA professor explained. “My bad companion was Phil Heymann.” Heymann, a Harvard Law School professor, hired Kleiman and his classmate Steve Hitchner to work on crime at the Department of Justice. Kleiman chatted with us before discussing some of the findings of his …
