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John J. DiIulio Jr.

John J. DiIulio Jr. is/was professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University and adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. For a short time he ran President Bush's Faithbased Initiative. When he left the White House, DiIulio decried the lack of a policy apparatus. He told Esquire: "What you've got is everything--and I mean everything--being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis." John J. DiIulio Jr. is/was professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University and adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. For a short time he ran President Bush's Faithbased Initiative. When he left the White House, DiIulio decried the lack of a policy apparatus. He told Esquire: "What you've got is everything--and I mean everything--being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."

Salon.com
Feb 1, 2001

Bringing faith to the West Wing

John DiIulio, who once spread fear about juvenile "superpredators," will now run President Bush's faith-based charity programs -- and build an army from GOP patronage.

Feb. 1, 2001 | Back in the mid-1990s, John DiIulio, an ambitious Princeton political scientist and scholar of prison management and crime, made a stir with what turned out to be one of the most disastrously wrong predictions in the annals of public intellectuals. Relying upon reams of supposedly irrefutable data, DiIulio predicted a massive coming wave of crime by children and teenagers -- crime of unprecedented brutality. Situating this prediction in the erosion of family and faith, DiIulio warned of a "generational wolf pack" of "fatherless, Godless and jobless" teens wreaking havoc on the American landscape. "Superpredators," he called them.

The tidal wave of superpredators never arrived. Instead, juvenile crime plummeted. But seizing upon DiIulio's incendiary predictions and prescriptions, politicians in both political parties created their own tidal wave -- a tidal wave of unforgiving punishment. Harsh juvenile prison sentences, the incarceration of teenagers, massive expansion of juvenile prisons: All were propelled forward by DiIulio's superpredator theory.

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DiIulio wrote seven reports for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute:

"Who Really Goes to Prison in Wisconsin? A Profile of Urban Inmates in Wisconsin Prisons" (John DiIulio, Jr. & George Mitchell) April 1996 (Vol.9 No.4)

"Broken Bottles: Liquor, Disorder, and Crime" (John DiIulio, Jr.) May 1995 (Vol.8 No.4)

"Community-Based Policing in Wisconsin: Can It Cut Crime?" (John DiIulio, Jr.) November 1993 (Vol.6 No.9)

"Crime and Punishment in Wisconsin: A Survey of Prisoners and an Analysis of the Net Benefit of Imprisonment " (John DiIulio, Jr.) December 1990 (Vol.3 No.7)